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The Coming Kingdom 



BY 

C. A. ROMINGER, A. B., D. D. S. 



To 

The Bride of Christ, 

and to 

The Twelve Tribes of Israel, 

is this little Volume 

lovingly and prayerfully dedicated by 

The Author. 



"This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world 
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." 

—Matthew 24:14. 
"Let him that readeth understand." 
"The wise shall understand." 



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IT IS THE PURPOSE of this little book to set 
forth, in Scripture language, as far as possible, a 
clear-cut distinction between the Church and the 
Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, the Christ. 

So few people seem to have grasped the real 
idea of the Kingdom, which is so clearly set 
forth in the Scriptures, that the author has 
been burdened for more than ten years with 
the need for such a work. 

John the Baptist came preaching, "Repent; for the Kingdom 
of Heaven is at hand." Jesus also preached the gospel of the 
Kingdom from the same text. So prominent was the thought of 
the Kingdom in the mind of our Lord that the word is used 124 
times in the four gospels, whereas the word Church is used only 
3 times. 

In the use of Scripture quotations, we shall use the Author- 
ized, the Revised, and the American Revised versions, and 
Leeser's translation of the Old Testament. 

Aware of the fact that only a few readers will make the refer- 
ences to the Scriptures, where only the number of the chapter 
and verse is given, it is the plan of this book to embody the full 
text into the work. 

Let no one object to the length, or the number of the quota- 
tions given; for it is the opinion of the author that these will be 
the strength of the work. It is his purpose to put together in 
close connection all the Scriptures bearing directly and unmistaka- 
bly on the subject in hand. 

We shall not hesitate either to use the same texts in different 
chapters as they bear on the thought in each chapter; for the same 
texts are pertinent to two, three, or even more thoughts; viz., the 
Kingdom, the King, the Throne, and the Nations. 

In the minds of many the Church and the Kingdom are syn- 
onymous terms. Indeed, that has been the teaching of the pulpit 
for many years, but they are essentially different, and must be so 
recognized or confusion follows, and the mind of the reader be- 
comes clouded. 

Let each text have its most apparent meaning. Do not put a 



foreign meaning into it. The most easy, the most natural, and 
the most literal meaning will generally be the nearest to the 
thought of the Divine mind. 

It is intended that there shall be some repetition in this book 
for the sake of vividness, and for strongly emphasizing thoughts 
that need to be hammered in. 

It is our belief that Scripture is the best interpreter of Scrip- 
ture, and hence we have rejected all commentaries, and there 
will be few references to any literature outside of the Bible 
itself. 




INTRODUCTION 



IN PLACING this book before the reading pub- 
lic, it is the hope and belief of the author that it 
will be nothing short of a revelation to many an 
earnest Bible reader. And yet, the author lays no 
claim to revelation. It is simply the rational read- 
ing and interpretation of what is plainly written 
in the Book. He does claim, however, that he is, 
in a measure, divorced from the old denomina- 
tional prejudices that have obscured the spiritual vision of many a 
child of God, and that he has rejected, almost wholly, the old 
school of spiritualizing Scripture. 

Israel is the key that unlocks prophecy. Christ is the 
coming King of earth He who reads with these two thoughts be- 
fore his mind, will find much of the prophecies simple and intel- 
ligible. Israel is God's elect, from the athletic contest at Peniel, 
to the end of the vision on Patmos. 

The law and the prophets were for Israel. We must not 
spiritualize the prophecies to apply them to the Gentiles; for that 
does violence to the word of God, and wrests its meaning. The 
parts that God meant to apply to the Gentiles are plainly so stated. 
It is robbery to take the covenants and prophecies made to Israel 
and give them to the other nations. 

The loftiest heights of Isaiah's visions, for instance, were but 
glimpses of the Kingdom of Christ, as it will be here on the earth. 
They are only brief word paintings of what he saw of the millen- 
nial Kingdom, as he looked down the vista of the ages to come, 
when God pulled the curtain aside for a few moments at a time, 
and told him to write what he saw. True, much of what the 
prophets saw and wrote, were scenes of woe and destruction, 
through which Israel was to pass because of her sin, and of the 
judgments on the nations that oppressed Israel. 

The Bible many times declares that Israel and Judah will 
again be united into one Kingdom; hence the Jews are not the 
only Israelites in existence today. If the House of Israel and the 
House of Judah are to be re-united, then the House of Israel is 
still in existence somewhere. We accept the theory that the An- 
glo-Saxon race are the lineal blood descendants of the House of 



Israel; Israelites, but not Jews. However, he who reads this book 
and sees nothing but Anglo-Israel in it, has read very blindly; for 
the object of the book is to define the Kingdom, and to differen- 
tiate it from the Church. They are not the same. 

There is very little in prophecy concerning the Church. And 
yet, in these latter times, the Church has been regarded as the end, 
instead of the means, until it has almost eclipsed the Kingdom. 

Surely the Christian world has forgotten, or else never knew, 
that the Church, as an organization, will disappear when the 
Kingdom is inaugurated under the Christ. The Church is only 
the assembly that is called out for the perfecting of the plans of 
the Kingdom. It is the scaffolding around the buiiding. The 
Kingdom is the real structure that is to stand when the scaffold- 
ing is torn away. The Kingdom, as described by the prophets, 
and as taught by Jesus, is the all-conquering power that is to sub- 
due the whole earth. 

Now, if the burden of all the prophets was the Kingdom, and 
if the Lord Jesus devoted the whole of his ministry to preaching 
the glad tidings of the Kingdom, we feel that we need not make 
any apology for thrusting this book before the public with all the 
emphasis that language can command. 

Every where the ministry and the laity are crying out in a pit- 
eous wail that the churches have lost their power. Is it any 
wonder? They have lost sight of the very object for which the 
Church was formed — the selection of the rulers of the literal King- 
dom of Christ on earth — and they have spiritualized the Kingdom 
into a myth, and placed the Church in its stead as an end. 

It is our belief that when the Kingdom is held up before men in 
the real light of Divine revelation, that the Church, as a means to 
that end, will have ail the power that God vouch-safed unto it. 
Let us take our moorings anew, if perchance, we may find some 
corrections to be made in our log-book of interpretation. 

Much missionary zeal, money, and labor have been wasted be- 
cause we have not recognized that the only hope of the nations is 
through Israel. The Gospel of the Kingdom is to be preached again 
in all the world for a witness to the nations. 

God's way is always best, and more people will be blessed 
and saved by obeying His commands, than we can bless or save 
through the impotent churches as we find them today. Let the 
Kingdom be held up before men in its real character, and many will 
be pressing into it. Herein is the wisdom of God's plan manifest. 



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God never promised that the Church should conquer the world, 
nor that all men should be brought into it; but on the other hand, 
Paul tells us that the glorious coming of the King will not occur, 
until there is a great falling away first of the Church, and the 
man of sin is revealed. Jesus told His disciples of the awful days 
of the tribulation that would precede the ushering in of His glori- 
ous reign. Hence, it is a vain hope that the nations will be 
brought to Christ, and into the Church before the Lord comes. 
The evangelization of the world before the Lord comes is an ideal 
fancy without a Scriptural promise. 

On the other hand, we are told that the fifth world Kingdom 
of Dan. 2:44 will subdue all other Kingdoms and that it shall en- 
dure forever. Many, many times we are told of the final triumph 
of Christ's Kingdom over all; but not so of the Church. Think. 



CONTENTS 

Preface iii 

Introduction iv 

CHAPTER I. 
A key to the Interpretation of Prophecy I 

CHAPTER II. 
God's Plan for a Kingdom 15 

CHAPTER III. 
Special Importance of the Ten Tribes 32 

CHAPTER IV. 

The Establishment of the Kingdom, and God's Unconditional 
Covenant to David 47 

CHAPTER V. 

Jesus, the Christ, to Sit on David's Throne 71 

CHAPTER VI. 
The Twelve Tribes of Israel will be the Kingdom of the Lord 
Jesus, the Christ 79 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Regathering of Israel, or, the Restoration of all Things. . 85 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Jerusalem will be the Throne of the Lord Jesus, the Christ 104 

CHAPTER IX. 
The Church, the Bride of Christ, will be the Rulers in This 
Kingdom 120 

CHAPTER X. 

The Hope of the Nations, the Gentiles 135 

CHAPTER XI. 

Tribulation, or, the Day of the Lord 143 

CHAPTER XII. 

The Coming King, and the First Resurrection 174 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Eutopia 188 

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CHAPTEE I. 
A Key to the Interpretation of Prophecy. 



Before we take up the subject proper on which this 
book is written, we think it needful to say a few things 
on the method of interpretation of prophecy. 

It is a well known fact that nearly all prophecy rela- 
tive to the Kingdom of heaven, or in other words, the 
millennial Kingdom of Christ, has been spiritualized and 
applied to the Church. Israel has been made synonymous 
with Christian, and Zion with Church, although the Bible 
never uses them in that sense. All kinds of symbolic 
meanings and interpretations have been given to unful- 
filled prophecy, until it is a sealed book to most Christians. 

The following Scripture is surely applicable to present 

conditions: Isa. 29:10-12. "The Lord hath poured out 
over you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes ; 
over the prophets, and your chiefs, the seers, hath he cast 
a veil. And the vision of everything has become unto you 
as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver 
to one that can read, saying, "Head this, I pray thee; 
and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed; and the book is 
then delivered to one that cannot read, saying, Read this, 
I pray thee, and he saith, I cannot read/' 

It will help us to examine a few examples of prophecy 
that are admittedly fulfilled, to see whether- the prophecy 
was literal or symbolic ; and this will give us a key to the 
interpretation of unfulfilled prophecy. 



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Israelis Bondage in Egypt. 

Gen. 15:13, H. "The Lord saith unto Abram, Know 
of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land 
which is not theirs, and they will make them serve, and 
they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the 
nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and after- 
wards they shall go out with great substance." Reader, 
was this literal, or not ? 

Their Deliverance. 

Ex. 3:7-10, 19-22. "And the Lord said, I have truly 
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and 
have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I 
know their sorrows ; and I am come down to deliver them 
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to deliver them out 
of that land into a good land and a large, unto a land 
flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the 
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the 
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now there- 
fore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto 
me; and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the 
Egyptians oppressed them. Come now, therefore, and I 
will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth 
my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And I 
am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not 
by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and 
smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the 
midst thereof; and after that he will let you go. And I 
will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: 
and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go 
empty: but every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, 
and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, 



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and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them 
upon your sons, and upon j^our daughters; and ye shall 
spoil the Egyptians." 

Now, we ask the reader to go over these two prophecies 
again, item by item, to see if each statement was not ful- 
filled in an absolutely literal manner. Could any single 
item be spiritualized without destroying the sense? 

Their Apostasy in Canaan. 

Deut. 31 :20, 21. "For when I shall have brought them 
into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth 
with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled 
themselves, and waxen fat ; then will they turn unto other 
gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my 
covenant. And it shall come to pass, when many evils 
and troubles are befallen them that this song shall testify 
against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten 
out of the mouths of their seed, for I know their imagi- 
nation which they go about, even now, before I have 
brought them into the land which I sware. 7 ' Can we 
spiritualize this and get the sense? 

Babylonian Captivity. 

Jer. 25:8-12. "Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts ; 
Because ye have not heard my words, behold, I will send 
and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and 
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will 
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants 
thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will 
utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and 
an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Moreover I will 
take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of glad- 



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ness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the 
bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the 
candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and 
an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king 
of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, 
when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish 
the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for 
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will 
make it perpetual desolations/' Is this literal? Did the 
prophet mean what he said ? 

The Desolation of the Land of Palestine. 

Lev. 26:81-33. "And I will make your cities waste, 
and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not 
smell the savor of your sweet odors. And I will bring 
the land into desolation; and your enemies which dwell 
therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you 
among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you; 
and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." 

Eze. 6:6-7. "In all your dwelling places the cities 
shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, 
that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and 
your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may 
be cut down, and your works may be abolished. And the 
slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord." 

Jer. J+:1. "The lion is come up from his thicket, and 
the destroyer of nations is on his way; he is gone forth 
from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities 
shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant." Is the mean- 
ing hidden in any of these passages? 



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Scattering of the Jews. 

Jer. 24:8, 9. "And as the evil figs, which cannot be 
eaten they are so evil ; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I 
give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the 
residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them 
that dwell in the land of Egypt ; and I will deliver them to 
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their 
hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, 
in all places whither I will drive them/' 

Deut. 28:37, 6J>-67. "And thou shalt become an as- 
tonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations 
whither the Lord shall lead thee. And the Lord shall 
8catter thee among all people, from the one end of the 
earth even unto the other ; and there thou shalt serve other 
gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even 
wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou 
find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; 
but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and 
failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind (as in Eussia today), 
and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou 
shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance 
of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God 
it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it 
were morning ! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou 
shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt 
see." 

Isa. 3:9. "The show of their countenance doth wit- 
ness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, 
they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have 
rewarded evil unto themselves." 

Jer. 29:18. "And I will persecute them with the 
sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will 



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deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the 
earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, 
and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have 
driven them." What of these? Are they literal? 

Destruction of Jerusalem and Samaria. 

'Lev. 26:28-29. "Then I will walk contrary unto you 
also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times 
for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, 
and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 

Jer. 19:9. "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of 
their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall 
eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and strait- 
ness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their 
lives, shall straighten them." 

Micah 8:12. "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be 
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and 
the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest." 

Mat. 21+:2. "And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all 
these things? A^erily I say unto you, There shall not be 
left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown 
down." 

Only God can prophesy. He must give the revela- 
tion, though it be uttered by man. Again we submit that 
in all of these utterances, we cannot give any one of them 
a symbolic meaning without destroying the Divine thought. 
So of the following : 

Of Christ's First Advent. 

Isa. 9:6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son 

is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder." 

Micah. 5:2. (Leeser) "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, 



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the least although thou be among the thousands of Judah, 
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be 
ruler in Israel, whose origin is from olden times, from 
most ancient days/' 

Isa. 7 :14, 15. "Therefore the Lord himself shall give 
you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, 
and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall 
he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the 
good/' 

Isa. 53:12. "Therefore will I divide him a portion 
with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the 
strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; 
and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and bare the 
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors/' 

Psa. 22:16. "For dogs have compassed me; the as- 
sembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my 
hands and my feet." 

Psa. 22:18. "They part my garments among them, 
and cast lots for my vesture." 

Zee. 9 :9. "Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion ; shout, 
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto 
thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding 
upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." 

Zee. 11:12-13. "And I said unto them, If ye think 
good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they 
weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the 
Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter : a goodly price 
that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces 
of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the 
Lord." 

Zech. 13:6. "And one shall say unto him, What are 



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these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, Those 
with which I was wounded in the house of my friends/' 

Zech. 12:10. "And I will pour upon the house of 
David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit 
of grace and of supplications; and they shall look upon 
me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for 
him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in 
bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first 
born/' 

Psa. 69:21. "They gave me also gall for my meat; 
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." 

From the foregoing it is plain that if any of these 
passages are taken in any other than their literal sense, 
the meaning would be perverted or wholly lost. We must 
then conclude that unfulfilled prophecy is likewise literal; 
and that we are not warranted in spiritualizing its meaning. 

There is some symbolic prophecy, but it is either so 
stated or else the context shows beyond doubt that it cannot 
be taken literally. Otherwise the literal sense is the true 
sense. "If the literal sense makes good sense, then seek 
no other sense." 

What the Scriptures Mean by Zion. 

It means Jerusalem. It does not mean the Church. 
It does not mean the Kingdom of God. It is used 160 
times and always has a local meaning. It first meant the 
stronghold of Jebus. But after David took this city and 
stronghold, the city was called Jerusalem, and the mount, 
or stronghold, was called Zion, and later, The city of 
David. Here David set up the tabernacle which Moses 
made in the wilderness, and it remained here until Solo- 
mon had finished the temple: then with great ceremony 



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the tabernacle was brought up out of the city of David, 
which is a part of Jerusalem proper, and its furniture 
was placed in the temple. This mount, or stronghold, 
is mount Zion. The temple was built on it. Here God 
chose to put His name. He chose this for His habitation, 
and it will be the place of Christ's throne. 

Zion is many times used as synonymous with Jerusa- 
lem, and often for the people, or inhabitants of Jerusalem, 
but its meaning never covers anything outside of Jeru- 
salem. 

Now, that we may see the proof of this we will give a 
number of texts in which the word Zion is used, and in 
every other text where it is used in the whole Bible the 
meaning is exactly the same as in these. 

/ Chr. 11:5. "And the inhabitants of Jebus said to 
David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David 
took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David." 

II Chr. 5:2. "Then Solomon assembled the elders of 
Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the 
fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring 
up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of 
David, which is Zion." 

Here are some Messianic prophecies of Jerusalem when 
Christ shall reign there as King. 

Psa. 2:6. "Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill 
of Zion." 

Psa. 9:11, 14.. "Sing praises to the Lord, which dwell- 
eth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. Have 
mercy upon me, Lord: consider my trouble which I 
suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from 
the gates of death: that I may shew forth all thy praise 



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in the gates of the daughter of Zion : I will rejoice in thy 
salvation." 

Psa. 48:2, 11, 12. "Beautiful for situation, the joy of 
the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, 
the city of the great King. Let mount Zion rejoice, let 
the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judg- 
ments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell 
the towers thereof." 

Psa. 50:2. "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, 
God hath shined." 

Psa. 51:18. "Do good in thy good pleasure unto 
Zion : Build thou the walls of Jerusalem." 

Psa. 69:35. "For God will save Zion, and will build 
the cities of Judah : that they may dwell there, and have 
it in possession." 

Psa. 74:2. "Bemember thy congregation, which thou 
hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which 
thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast 
dwelt." 

Psa.- 7 6:2. "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his 
dwelling place in Zion." 

Psa. 78:67, 68. "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of 
Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim but chose the 
tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved." 

Psa. 84:7. "They go from strength to strength, every 
one of them in Zion appeareth before God." 

Psa. 87:2, S, 5. "The Lord loveth the gates of Zion 
more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are 
spoken of thee, city of God. And of Zion it shall be 
said, This and that man was born in her : and the highest 
himself shall establish her." 



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Psa. 99:2. "The Lord is great in Zion; and he is 
high above all the people." 

Psa. 102:13, 14. "Thou shalt arise, and have mercy 
upon Zion; for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is 
coine. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and 
favour the dust thereof." 

Psa. 102:16, 21. "When the Lord shall build up Zion, 
he shall appear in his glory. To declare the name of the 
Lord in Zion, and his praises in Jerusalem." 

Psa. 110:2. "The Lord shall send the rod of thy 
strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine 
enemies." 

Psa. 125:1. "They that trust in the Lord shall be as 
mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for- 
ever." 

Psa. 128:5. "The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: 
and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of 
thy life." 

Psa. 132:13. "For the Lord had chosen Zion; he hath 
desired it for his habitation." 

Psa. 133:3. "As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew 
that descended upon the mountains of Zion ; for there the 
Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore." 

Psa. 13^:3. "The Lord that made heaven and earth 
bless thee out of Zion." 

Psa. 135:21. "Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which 
dwelleth at Jerusalem." 

Psa. 137:1. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat 
down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 

Psa. 137:3. "For there they that carried us away cap- 
tive required of us a song; and they that wasted us re- 
quired of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of 



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Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange 
land? If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand 
forget her cunning." 

Psa. 1^6:10. "The Lord shall reign forever, even thy 
God, Zion, unto all generations. 

Psa. 1J+7 :12. "Praise the Lord, Jerusalem; praise 
thy God, Zion." 

Psa. 149 :2. "Let Israel rejoice in him that made him : 
let the children of Zion be joyful in their King." 

Isa. 2:3. "And many people shall go and say, Come 
ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the 
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his 
ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jeru- 
salem." 

Isa. 4:3-5. "And it shall come to pass, that he that 
is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall 
be called holy, even every one that is written among the 
living in Jerusalem when the Lord shall have washed away 
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged 
the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit 
of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And the Lord 
will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and 
upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the 
6hining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory 
shall be a defence." 

Isa. 8:18. "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord 
hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from 
the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion." 

Isa lJf-32. (Leeser) "And what will each one of the 
messengers of the nations answer? That the Lord hath 



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founded Zion, and that therein shall find protection the 
poor of his people." 

Isa. 2^:23. "Then the moon shall be confounded, and 
the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in 
mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients 
gloriously." 

Isa. 30:19. "For the people shall dwell in Zion at 
Jerusalem." 

Isa. 33 :20. "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemni- 
ties, thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habita- 
tion, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one 
of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall 
any of the cords thereof be broken." 

Isa. 35:10. "And the ransomed of the Lord shall re- 
turn, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy 
upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 

Isa. 37:22, 32. "This is the word which the Lord hath 
spoken concerning him ; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, 
hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn ; the daughter 
of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. For out of 
Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape 
out of mount Zion; the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do 
this." 

Isa. 52:1, 2, 7, 8. "Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, 
Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the 
holy city ; shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, 
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, 
captive daughter of Zion. How beautiful upon the 
mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, 
that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good, 
that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God 



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reigneth. Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the 
voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to 
eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion." 

Isa. 59:20. "And the Eedeemer shall come to Zion, 
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith 
the Lord." 

Isa. 60:11+. "And they shall call thee, the City of 
the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 

Jer. 8:19. "Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her 
King in her?" 

Joel 3:16, 17, 21. "The Lord also shall roar out of 
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens 
and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope 
of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 
So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in 
Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, 
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: 
for the Lord dwelleth in Zion." 

We have now given 40 passages to show that Zion has 
a specific and local meaning, and to show how misleading it 
is to make it mean the Church, or the Kingdom of God, or 
any organization. This ought to help us greatly in the 
interpretation of prophecy. 

Let every one of us, then, refuse to use the word Zion 
in any other sense. This will soon correct the widespread 
error, and the abuse of the word. 



CHAPTEE II. 



God's Plan for a Kingdom. 



Israel is God's portion of the nations. Rom. 11:29. 
"The gifts and calling of God are without repentance." 
Paul said this with special reference to God's covenants to 
Israel— that they stand forever. Deut. 32:8, 9. "When 
the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, 
when he separated the sons of man, he set the bounds of 
the tribes according to the number of the sons of Israel. 
For the portion of the Lord is his people ; Jacob is the lot 
of his inheritance." Deut. 14:2 (Leeser). "For a holy 
people art thou unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath 
made choice of thee to be unto himself a peculiar nation, 
above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth/* 
Deut. 26:18, 19 (Leeser). "The Lord hath acknowledged 
thee this day, that thou are unto him a peculiar nation, 
as he hath spoken unto thee, and that thou shouldst 
keep all his commandments; so that he may set thee 
highest above all the nations that he hath made, in 
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou 
mayest be a holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he 
hath spoken." Psa. 135:4 (Leeser). "For Jacob hath 
the Lord chosen unto himself, Israel, as his peculiar treas- 
ure." Deut. 7 :6-8. "For thou art an holy people unto the 
Lord thy God : the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a 
special people unto himself, above all the people that are 
upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love 

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•upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in num- 
ber than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people; 
but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep 
the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath the Lord 
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you 
out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh 
king of Egypt." 

Lev. 26:^. "And yet for all that, when they be in 
the land of their enemies, will I not cast them away, 
neither will I loath them to destroy them utterly, to break 
my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God." 
Psa. 105 :6-10 (Leeser). "Oh ye seed of Abraham, his serv- 
ant, ye children of Jacob, his elect, he is the Lord our God, 
over all the earth are his decrees. He remembereth his cove- 
nant forever, and the word that he hath commanded to the 
thousandth generation, which he covenanted with Abra- 
ham, and his oath unto Isaac; and which he established 
unto Jacob as a statute, and unto Israel as an everlasting 
covenant." Psa. Ill :9 (Leeser). He hath sent redemption 
unto his people ; he hath commanded his covenant forever ; 
holy and to be feared is his name." Deut. 15 :6. "For the 
Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee : and thou 
shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; 
and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not 
reign over thee." 

God called Abraham out of Ur, that from him he might 
make a nation for himself. He bound himself in cove- 
nants to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would 
multiply them into innumerable hosts, and give them the 
supremacy over all the nations, and that he would give 
them, practically, the whole earth for their possession. 

To Abraham he made a promise of the Christ, who is 



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to be the King of Israel, and to whom all the nations shall 
become subject. This Jesus, the Christ, is presented in 
the Scriptures as Prophet, Priest and King. In his 
earthly ministry he was a Prophet. When he ascended on 
high he entered into his Priesthood. He is in that char- 
acter and office today. The whole book of Hebrews is de- 
voted to that subject, to show the superiority of the priest- 
hood of Christ over the Aaronic priesthood. When his 
work as our Great High Priest ends he will come as King. 

His will be a universal, and an absolute Kingdom. It 
will be the fifth Kingdom in the vision of Nebuchadnezzer. 
(Dan. 2:44.) It will include all the wealth, strength, and 
magnificence of all of them, without their weaknesses and 
injustice. 

In the minds of most people the Kingdom and the 
Church are synonymous terms. But they are not the 
same. They are wholly different. The prevalent idea is 
that Christ is going to reign over the Church, or rather, 
that he is reigning now. This is a great error, as we shall 
plainly see. 

But in order to get a clear conception of the subject 
in hand, it is necessary to see God's plan that he has laid 
out, and unfolded through the ages, in his covenants with 
certain individuals and their posterity. It should make 
no difference to us, in the study of this subject, whether 
these plans accord with our thinking and former teaching 
or not — the question for every honest seeker after God is, 
"Is this God's plan? Is this truth? Is this what he has 
revealed to us concerning the Kingdom of his Son" ? 

Much meaning attaches to the blessings of the patri- 
archs upon their children, and God seems to have always 
ratified these blessings and curses. In Gen. 9:25-27 it is 



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written, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall 
be nnto his brethren. Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ; 
and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge 
Japheth; and He (God) shall dwell in the tents of Shem. 
And Canaan shall be his servant." That this is the cor- 
rect rendering of this text, is fully borne out by the facts. 
God did dwell in the tents of Shem, and never in any 
other. He commanded Moses to *make the tabernacle in 
the wilderness, and promised that he would dwell therein. 
The Shekinah glory did not depart as long as the taber- 
nacle and temple service continued according to his com- 
mand. This also shows that God ratified this blessing of 
Noah on Shem, and that it has never been changed to this 
time. 

Now the great superiority, and the blessing are here 
given to Shem. God is to dwell in the tents of Shem, and 
Canaan is to be servant to both Shem and Japheth. The 
real learner will see at once that the Shemites are to be 
the greatest, and the inheritors of the blessings. The 
whole twelve tribes of Israel are Shemites. In a flash of 
thought the mind runs down through the ages and remem- 
bers God's covenants to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and 
all of his dealings with Israel. All of the rich promises 
to Israel rush into mind, and force the unprejudiced reader 
to say, "That is true." 

All theories must bend and yield completely to solid 
facts. When you run up against a fact, you are obliged 
to surrender. It will not down. It stands as an im- 
passable barrier. You cannot go around it; for its width 
reaches to the horizon on either side. You cannot go 
under it; for it is rooted to the eternal. You cannot go 
over it; for its height is infinite; and it will not down. 



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You must surrender. No amount of sentiment, nor the- 
oretical lore, nor floods of human eloquence, nor streams 
of beautiful sentiment, can ever disprove the fact that 
Israel stands first, "The head and not the tail," "above 
and not beneath," once and all the time, forever. God 
made it so, and it is so. 

It is not the amalgamated peoples of the earth who 
present the highest type of mankind; it is God's Israel, 
the Jews and the Anglo-Saxons. They are the highest 
type of men and women on the globe, and are so admitted 
by other nations. Whenever they have amalgamated with 
other peoples they have lowered the type and lost in stand- 
ing. The Mulatto and half-breed Indian for instance. 
As Kev. T. Rosling Howlett says, "The children of Anglo- 
Saxon fathers by African, Indian, and Asiatic mothers, 
are born out of wedlock, and are not Anglo-Saxons. They 
follow the fortunes of their mothers, as the names given 
them in all parts of the world indicate." 

It is not true that the amalgamation of the races im- 
proves the stock; for all the facts disprove it. There 
never has been a higher type of men than the Shemites. 
What has been the effect of the amalgamation of the Cas* 
tilian blood of the Spanish people with the negroes and 
Indians in Cuba and Mexico, but a marked deterioration 
of a noble Japhetic people? The Anglo-Saxons and the 
Jews stand for the greatest inventions that have blessed 
mankind, for the highest civilization, the most advanced 
science, the highest courts of justice, the greatest elevation 
of woman, the most extended merchandise, and the most 
phenomenal wealth of the world. 

They are distinctly the monotheists of the world, the 
preservers of the Sabbath, and the propagators of the relig- 



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ion of Jesus. They have all the earmarks of Israel, the 
greatest. They now possess the gates of the world accord- 
ing to the promise made to Abraham, that "his seed should 
possess the gates of his enemies/' 

America, that is, the United States, dominates the 
shores of this continent, while Great Britain owns Gibral- 
ter, the Cape of Good Hope, the Gulf of Aden, the Suez 
canal, the straits of Malacca, Hong Kong, Australia, New 
Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, and many other places of less 
moment. Really, there is only one important gate in the 
world today not controlled by them, and that is the Dar- 
danelles. Deut. 15:6. "For the Lord thy God blesseth 
thee, as he hath spoken unto thee; and thou shalt lend 
unto many nations, but thou shall not borrow; and thou 
shalt rule over many nations, but over thee shall they not 
rule." 

There never was a prophet outside of Israel, there was 
never a covenant with any other people, there never was a 
promise of a kingdom of any other nation, except to 
Ishmael. Then let us see the covenants that God made 
to the people of whom he has planned to make a great 
nation, and over whom he has declared that his Son shall 
reign. Psa. 147 :19 :20 (Leeser). "He declareth his word 
unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. 
He hath not done so unto any other nation: and his ordi- 
nances — these they know not. Hallelujah/' 

The Plan. 

Gen. 12:1-3. "Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get 
thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from 
thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee ; and 
/ will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, 



THE COMING KINGDOM 21 

and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. 
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that 
curse thee. And in thee shall all the families of the earth 
be blessed." 

This is the covenant that God made with Abraham in 
imcircumcision, in which was the promise of the Christ, 
and by which he became the father of all them that be- 
lieve. This included the Gentiles. (See Eomans 4:1-25.) 
Later he made a covenant of circumcision with Abram, and 
changed his name to Abraham. This is the covenant of 
national glory, and exclusive of the Gentiles. Gen. 
17:4, 16, 20, 21. "My covenant is with thee, and thou 
shalt be a father of many nations. And I will bless 
Sarah thy wife, and she shall be a mother of nations; 
kings of people shall be of her. As for Ishmael, I have 
heard thee, Behold, I have blessed him and will make him 
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes 
shall be beget, and I will make him a great nation. But 
my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall 
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year." 

When Hagar was cast out with her son Ishmael, God 
heard her cry, and said unto Abraham, "I will make a 
nation of him because he is thy son, but in Isaac shall thy 
seed be called." And again after Abraham had offered up 
Isaac in obedience to God's command (Gen. 22:15-19) the 
angel of the Lord called to Abraham out of heaven the 
second time, and said, "By myself have I sworn, saith the 
Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not 
withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will 
bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the 
stars in heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea 
shore; and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. 



22 THE COMING KINGDOM 

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be 
blessed; because thou hast heard my voice/' 

It is true that through Jesus, as Paul argues, there is 
a personal salvation offered to everyone that believeth, but 
the fullness of this blessing, in its national character, will 
not be realized till Jesus reigns in Jerusalem, and all the 
nations come under his dominion. 

And the Lord appeared unto Isaac and said (Gen. 
26:3, 4), "I will be with thee, and I will bless thee, for 
unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries, 
and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham 
thy father, and I will make thy seed to multiply as the 
stars of heaven, and I will give unto thy seed all of these 
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the 
earth be blessed." 

And unto Jacob he said (Gen. 28:13-15), "I am the 
Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; 
the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it and to 
thy seeed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, 
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, 
and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy 
seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And 
behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places 
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this 
land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that 
which I have spoken to thee of." 

The following will also show us the importance and 
value of a patriarch's blessing. Isaac had a blessing to 
bestow upon one of his sons. Eebecca knew it, and placed 
it upon Jacob's head, even by a deceitful method. It is 
also evident that God ratified the blessing that Isaac gave 
when he said (Gen. 27:28, 29), "God give thee of the 



THE COMING KINGDOM 23 

dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of 
corn and wine. Let the people serve thee, and nations bow. 
down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy 
mother's sons (the Edomites) bow down to thee, and 
cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he 
that blesseth thee." 

Let us recall to mind how very often through the 
prophecies these very blessings were repeated to Jacob, 
and how God said that the day would come when he would 
perform all the good things which he had promised to him. 

God said (Gen. 35:10-12), "Thy name shall not be 
called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name, I am 
God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a 
company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come 
out of thy loins, and the land which I gave Abraham and 
Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee." 

Then of the blessings that Jacob gave his sons just 
before parting (Gen. 48 & 49, Leeser), it will be only neces- 
sary to note the blessings upon Judah and Joseph. 

On Judah for the line of kingship when he said, "The 
scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law-giver from 
between his feet, until Shiloh come." 

But apart from the blessings of kingship on Judah, the 
greatest blessings were conferred upon the sons of Joseph, 
Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Jacob adopted as his own 
sons, and even gave the birthright blessing, which belonged 
to Eeuben, to Ephraim. It is very important to note this 
well, if we would comprehend as we should, the unfolding 
of God's plan for the Kingdom of his Son, and the dispo- 
sition of the nations of the earth. Joseph desired his father 
to give Manasseh the greatest blessing, and to that end he 
brought him so that his blind old father would place his 



24 THE COMING KINGDOM 

right hand upon Manasseh's head and his left upon Eph- 
raim's ; but his father crossed his hands and laid the right 
upon Ephraim's head and his left upon Manasseh's. And 
when Joseph tried to change them, he refused and said of 
Manasseh, "He also shall become a people, and he also shall 
be great; but truly, his younger brother (that is Ephraim) 
shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a mul- 
titude of nations. In thee, (that is, in Joseph) shall Israel 
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh; 
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh/' Today, when the 
nations of the world point to an ideal, Great Britain and 
the United States of America are held up as the highest 
ideals of human government. They bless the world. "In 
Joseph shall Israel bless." 

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a 
spring; the branches of which run over the wall, and they 
embittered his life, and they shot at him, and they hated 
him, the men of arrows, but his bow abode in strength, 
and his arms and his hands remained strong; from the 
hands of the mighty God of Jacob, from these thou becam- 
est a shepherd, the stone (kingdom) of Israel. From the 
God of thy father who will help thee, and from the Al- 
mighty, who will bless thee with the blessings of heaven 
above, the blessings of the deep, which coucheth beneath, 
with blessings of the breasts, and of the womb; with the 
blessings of thy fathers that have excelled the blessings of 
my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting 
hills ; these shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown 
of him that was separated from his brethren." 

So great and so intense are these blessings pronounced 
upon the head of Joseph, that we are constrained to look 
around us with an eye upon the nations, and ask ourselves 



THE COMING KINGDOM 25 

the question, "Who are these people on the earth today?" 
Such a people, blessed as they were, cannot have passed 
away. They must be in existence now, somewhere. No people 
so perfectly answer the description as Great Britain for 
Ephraim, and the United States of American for Manasseh : 
Great Britain is the multitude of nations,, and our own 
dear land is the great people. We are truly brethren. What 
two other nations, of like kindred blood, can lay claim to 
the blessings of heaven above, in the production of the nec- 
essary food products, as these two ? What two other nations 
can lay such claim to the blessings of the deep that couch- 
eth beneath, the mining interests, as these two nations? 
What two other nations are increasing in population like 
unto us ? What two other nations have gone so far beyond 
the blessings of their progenitors unto the utmost bound 
of the everlasting hills as we ? 

But we must add still another testimony of God's plan 
and purpose of blessing upon the house of Joseph, and see 
how perfectly the items of that blessing also fit these two 
nations. Just before Moses surrendered the leadership of 
Israel to Joshua, he assembled the tribes and blessed them, 
giving to Joseph the non-compare blessing also. Hear what 
he said. Deut. 33:13-17 (Leeser) "And of Joseph he 
said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things 
of heaven through the dew, and from the deep that couch- 
eth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by 
the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 
and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for 
the precious things of the everlasting hills, and for the 
precious things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and 
for the good will of him that dwelt in the thorn-bush : let 
the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the 



26 THE COMING KINGDOM 

top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. 
The firstling of his herd is adorned with glory, and his horns 
are like the horn of a unicorn; with them shall he push 
nations together to the ends of the earth ; and they are the 
myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Man- 
asseh." 

These promises and blessings never had the semblance 
of fulfillment in the Palestinian history of Israel. They 
were surely meant for these last times. And so perfectly 
do they weave in, both woof and skein with the history of 
Great Britain and America in these latter days, that we 
feel driven to the conclusion that they are the people. 
These covenants show God's plan for blessing the nations. 
All along down through the ages he has said that it should 
be through Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. He 
has declared his purpose that these should be the greatest, 
and that the rest should be blessed through these. The 
line of kingship must come through Judah, and David, and 
culminate finally in Christ. 

The Church is set forth in the Scriptures as the Bride 
of Christ, but never as his Kingdom. When a king marries, 
the woman whom he marries becomes his bride, but she 
can never be his kingdom. His kingdom must consist of 
the subjects of his realm. 

The bride of a king becomes his queen, and of neces- 
sity must reign with him. This is exactly what is de- 
clared of the Church; that she shall reign with Christ. 
"We shall be heirs and joint heirs with him." Whatever 
the king owns his wife owns; whatever honor, or glory > 
comes to the king, comes also to the queen, his bride. 
The Scriptures are uniform on this subject. There is not 
a single passage in God's word that teaches that Christ 



THE COMING KINGDOM 27 

will ever reign over the Church. But everywhere and 
throughout they teach that the Bride will reign with him. 
This is God's plan. Let us accept it, and fall into line 
with it. It is the due order. 

When David attempted to bring up the ark of God on a 
new cart, the Lord made a breach upon Israel in the death 
of Uzzah. After they had been without the ark of God 
for three months longer, they then obeyed the orders that 
they should have obeyed at the first. (I Chr. 15:2, 13.) 
David said, "Xone ought to carry the ark of God but the 
Levites; for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark 
of God, and to minister to him forever. For because ye 
did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach 
upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order." 

We must teach these things in the due order, if we 
would expect God's blessing upon us. The teaching of 
the modern pulpit is, that the Gentiles are the inheritors 
of all the blessings and promises that God made to Israel. 
Whereas, God said that the days will come when he will 
perform all those good promises to Israel. The modern 
teaching is that Israel is gone and lost forever, except the 
despised Jews, who are scattered among the nations, and 
even they are not expected to take any prominent place 
in the Kingdom of Christ. How apostate ! What woeful 
ignorance ! Is it any wonder that we have lost power with 
God? Is it any wonder that he has withdrawn his Spirit 
from the churches? 

In the picture of the Laodicean church, in Rev. 3 : 14-22, 
Christ is on the outside of the church knocking, but he 
makes no appeal to the body of the church, and now is 
making his appeal to individuals, that he may come in to 



28 THE COMING KINGDOM 

them. Listen how pathetically he says, "If any man will 
hear my voice." 

It is a comfort to know that in nearly every church 
there are a few who are waiting with uplifted gaze for the 
coming Lord, and who are glad to open the door to him 
at the first gentle knock. And with them he sups. 

The spiritualizing of Scripture has, probably, done 
more to obscure the truth than any other one thing. 
Whenever we turn aside to spiritualizing, nearly everyone 
goes a different path, and the mind of the disciple is 
turned aside from the truth, which otherwise would have 
been plain and easy, into a wilderness of errors, and into 
a jungle of darkness and mysticism. 

To follow the teachings of the modern pulpit we are 
compelled to lay aside our common sense, and take a 
mythical view, and form the most ethereal conceptions of 
the plainest truths. As proof of this take the word King* 
dom. In ordinary literature, or even spoken language, 
any child that can read knows that a kingdom involves 
the idea of territory, subjects, and a king; and that all the 
subjects in that territory must yield obedience to the king, 
and acknowledge him as their ruler and head, or else there 
is anarchy and rebellion. Think of the mythical, yea, even 
ethereal idea of Christ's Kingdom in the minds of most 
people — that he is reigning now, and that the Christians 
scattered about over the world, even though they constitute 
a very small minority of the inhabitants of the world, are 
the subjects over whom he is reigning; and even though 
we have not had a direct deliverance from him since apos- 
tolic revelation ceased. Although the Bible tells us that 
his is to be a universal empire, far surpassing those of 



THE COMING KINGDOM 29 

Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, yet we are asked 
to believe that Christ is reigning now in his Kingdom, and 
that is all we need expect. Any earthly ruler, who has 
no more of a kingdom than that, would not be counted a 
king at all. He would be counted a mere pretender — a 
paranoiac. 

It is a fact that in many, many instances, we have to 
make words in the Bible mean something wholly different 
from what they mean in all other books and papers, if we 
accept the concepts of our would-be teachers. They tell 
us that to die means to live, and that perish means to 
exist, and that the second death means living forever. 

We have come to the Bible with our minds all warped 
and beclouded, by looking through the glasses of those who 
have taught us, so that we have been unable to grasp the 
plainest statements therein. We put into it what we 
expect to read out of it. Take as an illustration of this 
Matt. 2 :6, "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art 
not the least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee 
shall come a Governor that shall rule my people Israel." 
Here it is plainly stated that Christ shall rule, or reign 
over Israel ; and yet, how many Bible readers have read it 
that way? They have spiritualized Israel to mean the 
Church, notwithstanding the fact that the Bible never uses 
Israel in that sense. In the Bible Israel means Israel, the 
blood descendants of Jacob. 

In the New Testament the word Israel is used 78 
times, and not once is it used synonymous with Christian. 
But on the contrary it always means the Shemites, the sons 
of Abraham. To use it in any other sense is to be un- 
scriptural and to obscure the truth of every passage con- 



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taining the word. We must learn that words have a 
specific meaning in the Bible as well as elsewhere, and 
that to use them loosely is to lead ourselves and others 
astray. Nowhere else are words used so loosely. Jew in 
the Bible means the descendants of Judah and Benjamin, 
and does not include the other ten tribes, yet our religious 
teachers violate this meaning almost continuously. Zion 
means Jerusalem, yet they use it for Church, and for 
Kingdom of God, and other fancied meanings to suit the 
idea of the spiritualizer. House of Israel is used to dis- 
tinguish the ten tribes of Israel from the House of Judah, 
the Jews, and yet our teachers habitually use them synony- 
mously. It is most misleading. Church and Kingdom 
mean two separate and distinct things, yet we constantly 
are taught that the church is the Kingdom of God. 
Not so. 

Much has been said and taught about the spiritual 
Kingdom of Christ, yet the Bible has nothing to say of 
such a kingdom. It has much to say of His earthly 
Kingdom when he shall reign gloriously in Jerusalem. 
Words in the Scriptures must mean just the same as they 
mean in other literature, or else we must have a separate 
dictionary of words for the Bible alone. 

We have now traced the covenants which contain God's 
promises and plans for the establishment of the Kingdom 
of Christ of the nation which he said he would raise up. 

From these covenants it must be plain to every reader 
that Israel is the people and nation which God has chosen 
for himself, and over whom Christ his Son will reign. 
And this is not the Church. 



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Deductions. 

(1) God called Abraham to make a nation for himself. 

(2) That nation must be above any other nation on 
the face of the earth. 

(3) His covenants were made to Abraham, Isaac, 
Jacob, Joseph and David. 

(4) These covenants did not inhere in Ishmael and 
Esau, nor in any other people than Israel. 

(5) To ignore Israel in the flesh is to miss the whole 
Divine conception of the Kingdom of Christ. 



CHAPTER III 



Special Importance of the Ten Tribes. 



Were it possible for us to know as little of the Jews as 
the average Christian knows of the other ten tribes of 
Israel, the Bible would be almost a meaningless book. 
We could as well say we will exalt the cross without any 
knowledge of the Christ. As much or more of unfulfilled 
prophecy relates to the ten tribes, or to the House of 
Israel, as to the Jews, and yet, possibly, nine-tenths of 
Christendom are indifferent to the fate of the House of 
Israel, or to their present or future inheritance. They 
treat the subject as a trifle; and it is a trifle only to 
triflers. The reunion of the House of Israel and the 
House of Judah is many, many times promised in the 
prophecies. It is only to state an axiom to say, If they 
are to be reunited with the House of Judah, they are still 
in existence. That is to say they still exist as a nation 
as pure in their lineage, and blood integrity as the Jews. 

The House of Israel must be recognized if we are to 
understand the Book. These ten tribes were carried away 
captive from Samaria by Sargon, about 721 B. C. and 
deposited in Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the 
cities of the Medes. These constituted what the Scrip- 
tures call the "House of Israel" in distinction from the 
"House of Judah/' 

The House of Judah consisted of only two tribes, 
Judah and Benjamin. They are the Jews. 

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The House of Israel consisted of the other ten tribes, 
viz., 1 Ephraim, 2 Manasseh, 3 Dan, 4 Asher, 5 Naphtali, 
6 Reuben, 7 Simeon, 8 Zebulun, 9 Issachar and 10 Gad. 
The Levites were scattered among both houses or kingdoms. 

These ten tribes were just as much Israelites as the 
others, but they were not Jews, and never will be. 

The whole twelve tribes were Israelites, but only two 
tribes were Jews, hence 

All Jews are Israelites, but 

All Israelites are not Jews. 

Under David and Solomon all the twelve tribes were 
united in one kingdom, and were known as the Hebrew, or 
Israelitish nation. But when Solomon died, and his son 
Eehoboam came to the throne, the people asked him to 
reduce the taxes, which had been levied on them by Solo- 
mon for his expensive reign, and they would serve him. 
He took counsel at first with the old men, and they said it 
was a reasonable request, and advised him to do so. He 
then took counsel of the young men, who advised him to 
answer the people haughtily, and to say that his little 
finger should be greater than his father's loins, and that 
whereas his father had whipped them with cords, he would 
whip them with scorpions. This advice of the young men 
he accepted and followed. So the ten tribes revolted and 
set up a new kingdom, and called Jeroboam to be their 
king. 

This ten tribed kingdom was known as "The House of 
Israel," "The Kingdom of Israel," "The Northern King- 
dom" and "Ephraim." They built the city of Samaria, 
which became the capital of this kingdom. 

The two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, remained true 
to David, and accepted Eehoboam as their king. They 



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had Jerusalem for their capital, and were known as "The 
House of Judah," or "The Kingdom of Judah," and "The 
Jews." 

Thus the Israelitish nation was divided into two king- 
doms about 975 B. C. and to this day they have never been 
reunited. 

They stood side by side, at war and at peace with each 
other for a period of 255 years, until the kingdom of 
Israel was subdued and taken captive by S argon, an 
Assyrian king, and carried away captive to the east, and 
deposited in the cities of the Medes and along the foot of 
the Caucasus mountains. 

The kingdom of Judah, or the House of Judah, the 
Jews, stood 133 years longer, until Jerusalem was taken 
by Nebuchadnezzar, and the Jews were taken to Babylon, 
there to accomplish 70 years in captivity. When this 70 
years was accomplished in Babylon, Judah and Benjamin, 
the Jews, returned to Palestine and rebuilt Jerusalem and 
the temple, under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah, and 
assumed their national character again. But the ten tribes 
were not united with them. This is shown by the following 
Scriptures. 

/ Ki, 12:21, 2k- "And when Eehoboam was come to 
Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with 
the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and four score thousand 
chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the 
house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam 
the son of Solomon. Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go 
up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel : 
return every man to his house ; for this thing is from me. 
They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and 
returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord." 



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Ezra 1:5, "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of 
Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, 
with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to 
build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem." 

Ezra kil. "Now when the adversaries of Judah and 
Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded 
the temple unto the Lord God of Israel ;" 

Ezra 10:9. "Then all the men of Judah and Ben- 
jamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem in three 
days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of 
the month ; and all the people sat in the street of the house 
of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great 
rain." 

These ten tribes were lost to Biblical and secular history 
at the fall of Samaria, and to this day have never been 
identified in a national character. They were not lost to 
the Jews; for they knew where they were all the while 
before and during the Babylonian captivity. 

Jeremiah was a prophet in Judah during the last 40 
years before the Babylonian captivity, 100 years after the 
House of Israel had disappeared, and yet one-third of his 
prophecy is directed to the House of Israel. He addresses 
the House of Judah, his own nation, 180 times, and the 
House of Israel 90 times. 

Ezekiel, who was one of the captives of Judah, often 
addresses the House of Israel in contrast with the House 
of Judah. Both the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel 
are replete with assurances of the regathering of all the 
twelve tribes into one nation again. This has not yet 
been done. It must be accomplished. Hence, the ten 
tribes must still be in existence as Israel, somewhere, though 



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they themselves may not know their identity. Why? 
Because they are blinded for a purpose. 

Paul tells us in Rom. 11 :25 that blindness is happened 
to a part of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be 
come in. He tells us that they are by no means cast 
away, that they are only blinded until God's purposes are 
fulfilled. 

No one who believes in the integrity of the Scriptures, 
and who looks for the fulfillment of prophecy, can for one 
moment believe that these ten tribes are gone forever, or 
that they have been absorbed by the other nations. It is 
too absurd. The integrity of the whole Bible depends 
on their present existence. If they are not still in existence 
as Israelites, in their national and blood integrity, then 
the Scriptures are false. It cannot be otherwise. Let 
deny it who will. 

Prophecy declares that the Jews would be scattered 
among all the nations, that they would be hated of all 
nations, and become a byword and a laughing stock, and 
known by the show of their countenance until the Lord 
comes again, when they will accept him as their Messiah. 
Jesus said to the Jews in Luke 13 :35, "Behold, your House 
is left unto you desolate; and verily I say unto you, Ye 
shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, 
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord/' The 
curse upon the Jews will remain until the Lord comes; 
but not so with the ten tribes. Theirs is to remain only 
till the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 

No one of the slightest Bible knowledge will deny that 
these prophecies have all been fulfilled literally in the Jews, 
so far as the time has elapsed for their fulfillment. These 
curses were not pronounced upon the ten tribes. Here is 



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distinctly Judah's portion: Jer. 24:8-10 "So will I 
give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the 
residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them 
that dwell in the land of Egypt; and I will deliver them 
to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their 
hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, 
in all places whither I shall drive them. And I will send 
the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till 
they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them 
and to their fathers." Isa. 3 :5-9 "And the people shall 
be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his 
neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against 
the ancient, and the base against the honourable. When a 
man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his 
father, saying; Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and 
let this ruin be under thy hand: in that day shall he 
swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is 
neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler of the 
people. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: 
because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, 
to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their coun- 
tenance doth witness against them ; and they declare their 
sin as Sodom, the}*" hide it not. Woe unto their soul ! for 
they have rewarded evil unto themselves." 

The foregoing does not apply to the House of Israel. 
But here is the curse in which they (the House of Israel) 
share their portion, and see how perfectly it fits them 
today. Isa. 29:9-14 "Stay but still and wonder; turn 
your eyes away, and be blinded; they are drunken, but not 
with wine ; they stagger, but not with strong drink ; for the 
Lord hath poured out over you the spirit of deep sleep, 
and hath closed your eyes. Over the prophets and your 



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chiefs, the seers, hath he cast a veil. And the vision of 
everything is become unto you as the words of a book 
that is sealed, which men deliver to one that can read, 
saying, Eead this, I pray thee ; and he saith, I cannot ; for 
it is sealed. And the book is then delivered to one that 
cannot read, saying, Eead this, I pray thee; and he saith, 
I cannot read." Is this not true to the letter ? Prophecy 
is a sealed book to most ministers and so-called wise men. 
And their spiritualizing of prophecy, however learned it 
may seem, must all be brought to naught. 

"And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw 
near with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, 
and have removed their heart far from me, and their fear 
toward me is but the acquired precept of men, therefore, 
behold, I will do yet farther a marvelous work with this 
people, doing wonder on wonder; so that the wisdom of 
their wise men shall be lost, and the understanding of 
their prudent men shall be hidden." 

From these and many other Scriptures we see the im- 
mense importance of the ten tribes, and that we cannot 
understand the prophecies unless we recognize their present 
day national existence. 

Now, we believe we can reduce their identity to an abso- 
lute certainty in a few bold strokes that anyone can under- 
stand, and which no one can possibly deny. 

Complexion. 

The Jews are among us. We know their complexion, 
that they are a fair skinned people. Then the Scriptures 
say that Sarah, Abraham's wife, was "fair, very fair," that 
Rebecca, Isaac's wife, was "fair, very fair," that Tamar 
was a woman of "fair countenance;" that Moses was "ex- 



THE COMING KINGDOM 39 

ceeding fair;" and that David was of a "fair and ruddy 
countenance." 

The whole twelve tribes were one family of Shemites, 
and hence the ten tribes were of like complexion to the 
Jews. That cannot be disputed, nor even questioned. 
This alone excludes all the dark skinned races from any 
claim whatever to be Israel. Hence the Chinese, the Jap- 
anese, the Malays, the Hindus, the Negroes, and the Indians 
are certainly not Israel. 

The Arabians are known to be Ishmaelites, and hence 
excluded. It is said that the Persians can trace their 
lineage in an unbroken line to Japheth. From the book 
of Obadiah, we learn the Turks are Edomites, the descend- 
ants of Esau, because they are the ones who possess Jeru- 
salem and the land of Palestine in the latter days. They 
also are excluded. 

The Eussians in the last days, as we learn from Eze. 38 
and 39, are Japhetic; for Magog, Mesech, Tubal, Gomer 
and Javan were all sons of Japheth; and the house of 
Togormah was Gomers descendants. Therefore they can- 
not by any possibility be Israel. 

All ethnological writers agree that the Latin races are 
Aryan also, that is of Japhetic origin, and hence excluded. 
This shuts out Italy, France, Spain, South America, Cuba 
and Mexico. Hence there remain only the great Teutonic 
race, which includes the Germans, the Scandinavians and 
the Anglo-Saxons, or English speaking peoples. They are 
Israel ; for they all have the earmarks. 

While the Germans and the Scandinavians are certainly 
Israel, it is not our purpose here to enlarge upon their iden- 
tity. The greatest blessings given to any tribe or people, 
were given to Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and Manasseh. 



40 THE COMING KINGDOM 

It is our purpose here to settle their identity beyond the 
shadow of a doubt; for when that is settled the rest settles 
itself. 

Earmarks, or Hebrew Identities. 

I. The color, or the complexion, of the Anglo-Saxon 
and the Jew corresponds. 

II. Our names are Hebraic. Among what other 
people are to be found in such profusion such names as 
John, Paul, Samuel, James, David, Solomon, Jacob, Abra- 
ham, Isaac, Jeremiah, and Mary, Eebecca, Eachel, Euth, 
Sarah, Martha and Susannah? Why? Because we are 
Israel. 

III. The similarity of the English language to the 
Hebrew is striking and unanswerable. The Hebrew can 
be translated into English almost word for word without 
changing the construction. 

IV. Monotheism is most thoroughly inbred in the 
Anglo-Saxon. Whence came it, but from Israel ? 

V. We are the great preservers of the Sabbath. Why ? 
Because we are Israel. Ex. 31 :17, "It is a sign be- 
tween me and the children of Israel forever." Who else 
has preserved the Sabbath ? 

VI. We have the highest courts of justice, from the 
theocratic law of Moses. 

VII. We have the greatest elevation of woman. 
Israel was to be "above and not beneath." 

VIII. We have the highest civilization of the world. 
Why? Because Israel was to be the "head and not the 
tail." 

IX. The house of Joseph was to push the nations to 
the ends of the earth, as with the horn of a unicorn. 



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Such is the Anglo-Saxon. They are the conquering and 
unconquered race. Wherever the Saxon goes he stays; 
and wherever he stays he rules. "Thou shalt rule over 
many nations, but over thee they shall not rule." 

X. We lend to many nations, but we do not borrow, 
according to the prophecy, "Thou shalt lend to many 
nations, but thou shalt not borrow." 

XI. We possess the gates of the world, according to 
the promise, "And thy seed shall possess the gates of his 
enemies." 

XII. "In Joseph shall Israel bless." Great Britain 
and America have done more for civilization, and the 
spread of the gospel than any other nation. 

XIII. Our vigor of thought is similar to the Hebrew. 
What statesman or law-giver ever equaled Moses? What 
poet ever exceeded the sweet singer of Israel, David? 
What philosopher or king ever exceeded Solomon? In 
these same lines, where is the people or nation that stands 
as peer to the Anglo-Saxon, in modern literature or states- 
manship ? 

XIV. We hold the granaries of the world, according 
to the blessing on Joseph. In the year, 1905, the farm 
products of the United States alone were valued at 
$6,415,000,000. The corn crop for 1906 was 2,927,000,000 
bushels; and the farm products for 1907 were $7,- 
412,000,000. 

XV. The wealth of the everlasting hills is ours, the 
greatest mining interests of the world. The ear is so 
thoroughly marked that there is no room for any more. 
Surely this settles the identity of modern Israel; but if 
any one should still deny it, it behooves him to find a 
people with greater likenesses ; for Israel still exists. 



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The Savior's ministry was to this ten-tribed kingdom. 
Matt. 15:24, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of 
the House of Israel." The apostolic mission during the 
Savior's ministry was also to these, and these alone. Matt. 
10:5-6, "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into 
any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to 
the lost sheep of the HOUSE OF ISBAEL." 

Why this exclusiveness ? Because the Hebrew nation 
was created and established for God's peculiar people, and 
for the glory of his Son, over whom he is yet to reign. 
It was placed in the hands of David and his successors, 
until He comes, whose right it is to reign. 

"He came unto his own" tribe, Judah, "and his own," 
the Jews, "received him not." He wept over them and 
said, "Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, 
and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would 
I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathers 
her brood under her wings, and ye would not. Behold, 
your House (the House of Judah) is left unto you deso- 
late; and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until 
the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh 
in the name of the Lord." 

The kingdom had departed from the Jews, but God 
had declared by the mouth of Jeremiah that "David should 
never want a man to reign over the HOUSE OF ISKAEL." 
So when the Jews rejected him, he left Judea and went into 
Galilee, and spent the three years of his ministry there. 
The people whom the Assyrians had imported from the 
east, and established on the land of the ten tribes, had 
mixed with the Hebrews, and formed the people known as 
the Samaritans. They being a mongrel, or hybrid race, 
were hated of the Jews, and regarded as mere dogs. But 



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Galilee was peopled, in the time of our Lord's ministry, 
by a pure people of the ten tribes. This cannot be dis- 
puted nor denied; for it is not possible that Jesus could 
have missed his mission. He said, "I am not sent but to 
the lost sheep of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL." Hence he 
could not have been preaching to either Jews or Gentiles. 
Nor is it supposable that he made a mistake when he sent 
out the twelve into the cities of Galilee, to preach to the 
lost sheep of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL. They were cer- 
tainly not preaching to either Jews or Gentiles. There- 
fore it is certain, beyond all question, that Galilee was 
peopled by the descendants of the ten tribes at the time of 
our Savior's earthly ministry. 

But why should his mission have been exclusively to 
them ? Because his mission was to preach the gospel of the 
Kingdom, and as he was to be the King, it was most fitting 
that he should preach it to his own subjects, to the nation 
over whom he is yet to reign. 

The Jews had rejected him, and he had declared that 
the House of Judah should be desolate till his second com- 
ing. Then they will say, "Blessed is he that cometh in 
the name of the Lord." The scepter had been transferred 
from the kingdom of Judah, at the fall of Zedekiah, in the 
hands of Judah, to be swayed over the House of Israel. 
And since it was his Kingdom, and his right to reign on 
David's throne, his gospel, or the glad tidings of the King- 
dom, had to be preached to them, and them alone. Hence 
the whole of his three years' ministry was spent in Galilee 
preaching the glad tidings of the Kingdom of heaven to 
the ten tribes. 

When his ministry was ended, and his death and his 
resurrection were accomplished, just before his ascension, 



44 THE COMING KINGDOM 

he commanded the apostles to go out and preach a different 
gospel from that which he had preached. He had preached 
the gospel of the Kingdom to Israel, but, now they were to 
go out into all the world and preach the gospel of a per- 
sonal salvation to every creature, assuring them that who- 
soever believed it, and was baptized, should be saved. 

Perhaps we can emphasize this thought, and make it 
perfectly plain by placing the two commands to the apostles 
in juxtaposition: thus, I. "Go not into the way of the 
Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye 
not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel/* 

II. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel 
to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall 
be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned/' 

This was the beginning of the gospel of the Church, 
which means the gospel of a personal salvation to every 
creature. It was not limited to a nation, but it was to be 
preached to all nations in order to select out individuals 
from every nation to be the rulers and courtiers in the 
Kingdom when Christ returns. This is the ecclesia, the 
called out ones. The Church now becomes prominent in 
the Acts and the Epistles and in the Eevelation. The 
word is used in its singular and plural forms 115 times; 
whereas the word Kingdom is used only 17 times. 

It was not so necessary to preach the gospel of the 
Kingdom during the long interval while the King was 
gone into a far country to receive his Kingdom, but he said 
unto them, "Just before the end, or in other words, just 
before I come again, this gospel of the Kingdom, which I 
have preached, must be preached again in all the world for 
a witness to all the nations ; and verily I say unto you, Ye 



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shall not have gone over all the cities of Israel till the Son 
of man be come." 

From this it is plain that the gospel of the Kingdom, 
which is yet to be preached before the coming of our Lord, 
is to be preached to the House of Israel, especially, for the 
Jews have no cities of their own, and the gospel of the 
Kingdom is for Israel and not for the Gentiles. 

We believe that the time is at hand for this kind of 
preaching again. Spontaneously the Kingdom idea is 
being impressed on the minds of the most thoughtful 
Christians everywhere. We believe the time of the Gen- 
tiles is nearly full, for the following reasons, namely : 

I. Jerusalem was to be trodden down of the Gentiles, 
until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. That day has 
passed; for Jerusalem is now being trodden again by 
Jewish feet. 

II. The blindness that happened to a part of Israel 
was to continue "Until the fullness of the Gentiles be 
come in." That blindness is departing; for we are begin- 
ning to recognize Israel again, and the importance of the 
Kingdom. 

III. The blindness mentioned in Isa. 6 was to con- 
tinue until the desolation of Palestine was fully accom- 
plished. That day has passed, and Palestine is filling up 
again. We believe the time of the Gentiles means their 
opportunity to receive the gospel of an individual salva- 
tion, which has been preached to them so faithfully through 
the church, especially during the last century. 

Permit us here to pay a tribute of praise and honor to 
the faithful churches, and to a great army of noble men 
and women who have borne this message to the nations in 
obedience to our Lord's command. They have not stopped 



46 THE COMING KINGDOM 

because of dangers, nor been deterred by labors nor ex- 
pense, but many of them have laid down their lives for 
Jesus and the gospel, and have thus won the martyr's 
crown. Let no one say there has not been a faithful min- 
istry. God has witnessed for them with signs following. 
Many of the pioneer ministers in this country were unedu- 
cated men, but they were men of power, and God sealed 
their message on the hearts of our f athers and mothers, and 
made them God-loving and God-fearing men and women. 
Honor to their names, and peace to their ashes. 

Deductions. 

(1) The ten tribes are still preserved as pure in their 
blood lineage as the Jews. 

(2) Jesus was sent to them alone. 

(3) To ignore them is to obscure revelation. 






CHAPTER IV. 



God's Unconditional Covenant to David, and the 
Establishment of the Kingdom of Christ. 

God called Abram out of Ur for the express purpose of 
making a nation for himself. He assured him that in 
Isaac should his seed be called. Isaac, by his blessing, 
settled it on Jacob; and God changed Jacob's name to 
Israel. Then we are told in Deut. 32:8, 9 (Leeser), 
"When the Most High divided to the nations their in- 
heritance, when he separated the sons of man; he set the 
bounds of the tribes according to the number of the sons of 
Israel ; For the portion of the Lord is his people : and Jacob 
is the lot of his inheritance/' Psa. 135 :4 "For Jacob hath 
the Lord chosen unto himself, Israel, as his peculiar treas- 
ure." Deut. 7 :6 "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord 
thy God; the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a 
special people unto himself, above all the people that are 
upon the face of the earth/' David was God's choice to 
be king over this people. Through the prophet Nathan 
he made an unconditional covenant that he would establish 
David's kingdom and throne forever. II Samuel 7 :16, 
"Thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever 
before thee : thy throne shall be established forever." 

Psa, 89:3, J>, 28, 29, SJ^-Sl, "I have made a cove- 
nant with my chosen, (Israel). I have sworn unto David 
my servant, Thy seed will I establish forever, and build 
up thy throne to all generations. My mercy will I keep 

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for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast 
with him. His seed will I make to endure forever, and 
his throne as the days of heaven. My covenant will I not 
break nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. 
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto 
David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as 
the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the 
moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven/*' There can 
be no stronger statement made in the Bible than the one 
here made that David's throne is to endure forever. When 
God ratified a covenant by an oath it was absolutely un- 
changeable. No condition arising thereafter could annul 
it or make it void. Here is a covenant, a sworn covenant, 
without a condition, that David's throne is to endure as 
long as the sun and moon perform their wonted revolu- 
tions. It is seven times declared by God and by Gabriel 
that Jesus Christ is to receive David's throne and sit upon 
it, and reign over the house of Jacob forever. 

Then how can any one who accepts the infallibility of 
the Scriptures for one moment admit that David's throne 
has ever ceased? It cannot be. Its perpetuity must be 
not only admitted, but shown. This is taking God at his 
word. There is no other way open. II Chr. 13:5, 
"Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the 
kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to 
his sons by a covenant of salt ?" 

Jer. 81:35-37, "Thus saith the Lord, which giveth 
the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon 
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea 
when the waves thereof roar: the Lord of Hosts is his 
name. If those ordinances depart from before me, saith 
the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being 



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a nation before me forever. Thus saith the Lord; If 
heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the 
earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed 
of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord." 
Jer. 33:20, 21, "Thus saith the Lord; if ye can break 
my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, 
that there should not be day and night in their season; 
then may also my covenant be broken with David my 
servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his 
throne." 

But the people have said that the Lord has not kept his 
covenants. They say that the kingdom of David has long 
since ceased to exist, and that the tribes of Israel have all 
disappeared from the earth, except the scattered Jews. 
Let us drive home the repeated statement that as long as 
the sun and moon perform their wonted circles in the 
heavens, so long must Israel be a nation upon the face of 
the earth. The Jews have not fulfilled this condition since 
their dispersion. They are a people, but they are not a 
nation. But God said the people would say this; for the 
24th verse runs thus: "Considerest thou not what this 
people have spoken, saying, The two families (Israel and 
Jndah) which the Lord hath chosen he hath even cast 
them off? Thus they have despised my people that they 
should be no more a nation before them." And then God 
reaffirms the certainty of his covenant in the 25th and 
26th verses. "Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be 
not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the 
ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the 
seed of Jacob, and my servant David, so that I will not 
take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob ; for I will cause their captivity to return 



50 THE COMING KINGDOM 

and have mercy upon them." Jer. 33:17, "For thus 
saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon 
the throne of the House of Israel/' Now the expression 
"House of Israel" is here used to distinguish it from the 
"House of Judah." It is admitted that the Jews, or the 
House of Judah, did cease to be a kingdom when they 
were carried to Babylon, and that they have not had a son 
of David on a throne over them as a nation since that 
time. Hence it becomes necessary for us 

To find the House of Israel, or, David's Kingdom, in 
perpetuity up to the present time. 

The integrity of the Scriptures depends upon it. If 
David's throne has ever ceased to exist, then God's oath 
and covenant have been broken; then all these promises 
that it should endure as the sun and moon are false, and 
the basis of our faith in the Scriptures is gone. 

Now this kingdom which is to stand forever is the 
throne and Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, the Christ of 
God. I Chr. 28 :5, "God hath chosen Solomon my son 
to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over 
Israel." I Chr. 29:23, "Then Solomon sat upon the 
throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father and 
prospered." II Chr. 13 :8, "And now ye think to with- 
stand the kingdom of the Lord in the hands of the sons of 
David." Here it is three times declared that this is the 
throne of the Lord. The Jews recognized David's kingdom 
as the kingdom of Christ; for on the day that Jesus rode 
into Jerusalem on the ass's colt they cried (Mark. 11:10), 
"Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh 
in the name of the Lord." And in John 12 :13, "Blessed 
is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the 
Lord." 



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The Planting of a Kingdom. 

We have seen that God promised to David that he 
would appoint a place for his people, and plant them in a 
place of their own, and that they should move no more. 
He said again by the mouth of Jeremiah (Jer. 31 :27, 28), 
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow 
the House of Israel and the House of Judah with the 
seed of man and with the seed of beast. And it shall 
come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to 
pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to 
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, 
saith the Lord." 

Jeremiah was appointed to do this planting and build- 
ing. Jer. 1 :5, 10, "Before I formed thee in the belly I 
knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb 
I sanctified thee; and ordained thee a prophet unto the 
nations. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and 
over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to 
destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant" 

Again we are told by the mouth of Daniel ivhen this is 
to be done. He is interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream, 
and describing the four world empires as indicated by the 
dream, and then prophesies a fifth empire that is to be 
established in the time of these Icings, which is to stand 
forever; neither will it ever pass into the hands of any 
other people than those of whom it is built. Dan. 2 :44, 
"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven 
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed ; and the 
kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break 
in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall 
stand forever/' Surely no one will deny that this is the 



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kingdom of Christ which is to be established by the God 
of heaven, and which is to stand forever. Nor can we fail 
to see the time in which it is to be done; in the time of 
these Icings. That is before the vanishing of the Baby- 
lonian, the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman has 
been completed. 

It must be a patent fact also that these four empires 
were earthly and material ; so must the fifth be earthly and 
material; though set up by God himself, and called by 
Christ, "The Kingdom of Heaven." Jesus taught in un- 
mistakable terms that it is an earthly and a material king- 
dom, composed of good and bad men, and that it will con- 
tinue such until the Son of man comes in his glory at the 
end of this age. Then he will weed out of it all that 
offend and all that do wickedly, and cast them into the 
furnace of fire. The various parables of the 13th chapter 
of Matthew are given to illustrate the Kingdom of Heaven, 
and we cannot escape the fact that his kingdom is an 
earthly one; for in declaring to his disciples the parable 
of the tares of the field he says, "He that soweth the 
good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world (not 
heaven) ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, 
(the meek shall inherit the earth) ; but the tares are the 
children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them 
is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the 
reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered 
and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this 
world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and 
they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a 
furnace of fire. Then shall the righteous shine forth as 
the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Likewise in the 



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parable of the net, he said, "So shall it be in the end of 
the world; the angels shall come forth, and sever the 
wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into a 
furnace of fire." Hence the following facts appear beyond 
controversy : 

1. The Kingdom of Heaven is already on the earth at 
the end of this age. 

2. It is composed of good and bad men. 

3. It is a material, and not a spiritual kingdom. 

4. It will be cleansed at the end of this age, and not 
before. 

5. It will then be a material and a spiritual kingdom. 
We have heard much of Spiritual Israel from those 

preachers upon whom God has pronounced a woe, and yet 
the expression Spiritual Israel does not occur within the 
lids of the Bible, nor even the thought that it conveys. 
Then surely it is time to turn away from such apostate 
teachers, and get back to the old paths where God walks 
with his people. God is yet to be glorified in Israel. The 
Gentiles are only a graft into the stock of Israel, they are 
not the root. Paul makes this plain in the 11th chapter 
of Eomans. God said that Israel must be "the head and 
not the tail," must be "above and not beneath" 

It is not because of merit in Israel that they are to be 
exalted in the latter days, but because God has promised 
and sworn, that it should be thus. Isa. 48 :9-ll, "For 
my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise 
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I 
have refined thee, but not for silver ; I have chosen thee in 
the furnace of affliction. For my own sake will I do it; 
for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give 
my glory to another." But the preachers tell us that he 



54 THE COMING KINGDOM 

has given it to the Gentiles, and they claim for the Gentiles 
all the specific blessings that were made to Israel, in the 
very face of this declaration from God himself. 

Hear what God has said unto them in Jer. 23:1-4. 
We will paraphrase it so as to make it plain. "Woe unto 
the preachers who destroy, and scatter the sheep of my 
pasture, saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the God of 
Israel against the preachers who teach falsely, that despise 
or neglect of Israel, and unjustly take the promises that I 
made unto Israel, and appropriate them unto others under 
the name of ''Spiritual Israel" of which I have said noth- 
ing. "Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away, 
and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you 
the evil of your doings, saith the Lord. And I will gather 
the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have 
driven them, and I will bring them again to their folds; 
for they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set 
preachers over them who will teach them the truth; and 
they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall 
they be lacking, saith the Lord." 

Jer. 33:17, "For thus saith the Lord, David shall 
never want a man to sit upon the throne of the House of 
Israel/' 

From these passages it is clear that David's kingdom 
was never to cease. But we are told in Prov. 25:2 that 
"it is the glory of God to conceal a thing." So he caused 
the House of Israel to be carried away captive from their 
land, and to disappear from history, but he did not forget 
his covenant to David, nor his approval of Jacob's bless- 
ings upon his sons. Gen. 49:10 (Leeser), "The sceptre 
shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from be- 






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tween his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the 
obedience of the peoples be." 

We must then find David's kingdom in perpetuity to 
the present time. 

In tracing the House of Israel from the fall of Samaria 
in 721 B. C. to the present time, and their identification 
with the Anglo-Saxons, we shall only state the salient facts 
here, without giving the proof of them ; for it is not within 
the purpose or scope of this brief work to enter into a full 
discussion of this matter. We refer the reader who wishes 
to verify the statements here made to "Anglo-Israel," by 
Rev. T. Eosling Howlett, and "Our Eace Series," Vols. I, 
III and IV, by Lieut. C. A. L. Totten, and to many other 
works on this subject. In the passage quoted above from 
Genesis we are told that the scepter must be in Judah's 
hand until Jesus comes, and this must be his second 
coming : for the peoples, that is the nations, did not render 
him obedience during his earthly ministry, but they will 
when he reigns as king in Jerusalem. 

After the establishment of David's kingdom the scepter 
was in Judah's hands continuously until the fall of Jeru- 
salem, when Zedekiah was taken to Babylon; and here 
Biblical history ends, and seemingly the scepter departed 
from Judah. But the Scriptures cannot thus fail. 

The tribe of Dan had two colonies, one on the western 
coast of Palestine, including Joppa, the sea-port; the other 
on the extreme northern boundary. Eldad, an eminent 
Jewish historian, tells us that soon after the revolt of the 
ten tribes, on the accession of Rehoboam to the throne of 
Judah, about 975 B. C, "the tribe of Dan at Joppa, rather 
than go to war with Judah, and shed their brothers' blood, 
left Palestine in a body and went to Greece, Javan, and 



56 THE COMING KINGDOM 

Denmark." From Denmark they soon passed over and 
peopled northern Ireland. Here they became the ruling 
power during the 255 years of the co-existence of the two 
kingdoms, Israel and Judah, and the 133 years that Judah 
existed after the fall of Samaria. 

The northern colony of Dan remained in Palestine until 
they were taken captive by the Assyrians. Being at the 
north they were the first ones taken, and hence were the 
pioneers in their westward wanderings. 

Immediately after the deportation of the ten tribes to 
Media in 721 B. C. they began to make their way westward 
to join their brethren, the Danites, in Denmark and Ire- 
land. They made their way along the foot of the Caucasus 
mountains and by the Caspian and Black Seas, and through 
the German Black Forests, naming the rivers and places 
after their tribal father Dan. We find the Don, or Dan 
river, the Danaster, the Danube, The Bhodan, Danmark, 
Londan. 

Later when Samaria fell, in 721 B. C, and all of the 
others of the ten tribes were taken to Media, they soon fol- 
lowed in the wake of their Danite brethren. They became 
the Scythians, the Massagetae, the Gauls and the Goths, 
and laid the foundation of the great Teutonic people, who 
today are the Germans and the Scandinavians. But many 
of them landed in the British Isles and became the Welsh, 
the Angles, and the Saxons. II Esdras 13 :40-47, "Those 
are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners 
out of their own land in the time of Hosea the king, 
whom Shalmanessar, the king of Assyria, led away captive, 
and he carried them over the waters, and so they came 
into another land. But they took counsel among them- 
selves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen 



THE COMING KINGDOM 57 

and go forth into a further country, where never mankind 
dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes which they 
had never kept in their own land. And they entered into 
the Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. For 
the Most High then showed signs for them and held the 
flood until they were passed over. For through that coun- 
try there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a 
half; and the same region is called Arsareth. Then dwelt 
they there until the latter time ; and now when they shall 
begin to come, the Highest shall stay the springs of the 
stream again that they may go through." 

These Danites made their lasting impress upon the 
nations among whom they mingled in their movements 
toward the British Isles. Wm. E. Gladstone, the great 
English statesman, in reviewing Homer's Iliad gives un- 
conscious testimony to this fact. He shows that the word 
Danoi is used 147 times in this book alone, and 13 times 
in the Odyssey for the fighting men of Greece. They were 
the men who made Greece what she was in her palmy days. 
Keating in his history of Ireland tells us that after a battle 
with the Assyrians the Danites left Greece in a body and 
went to Ireland. Josephus tells us that the men of Greece 
were brethren to the Jews. 

The Gauls and Goths, who were Israelites, made Eome 
what she was in the days of her greatest glory, and then 
they passed on to their place in the British Isles, and the 
United States of America, whence they were not to be 
moved. "I will plant them in a place of their own and 
they shall move no more/' 

Jeremiah, the foreordained prophet to the nations, 
lamented that he was born, because of the fact that he 
was a man of strife and contention to the whole earth. He 



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committed sins for which the Lord said to him ( Jer. 15 :11, 
13, 14, 19-21, Leeser), "Truly I will release thee for thy 
good; truly I will cause the enemy to meet thee in the 
time of distress and in the time of affliction. Thy wealth 
and thy treasures will I give up as a spoil without price, 
and this for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. And I 
will cause them (that is, thy riches), to pass over with 
thy enemies into a land which thou knowest not ; for a fire 
is kindled in my anger, over you (Jeremiah), shall it 
burn. Wherefore thus hath said the Lord, If thou return, 
and I bring thee back again, then shalt thou stand before 
me; and if thou bring forth the precious from the vile, 
thou shalt be as my mouth; these (thy riches) shall return 
unto thee; but thou shalt not return unto them. And I 
will make thee unto this people as a fortified brazen wall; 
and they will fight against thee, but they shall not prevail 
against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to 
deliver thee, saith the Lord. And I will deliver thee out 
of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of 
the grasp of the t}rrants." 

We know from the subsequent facts that he did repent, 
and became the brazen wall to Judah. The Lord insured 
his life in a genuine Insurance Company which never failed. 
Jer. 20:11, 12, "But the Lord is with me as a mighty 
powerful one; therefore my persecutors will stumble; and 
they will not prevail : they will be greatly ashamed, for they 
will not prosper; it is an everlasting confusion which will 
never be forgotten. But, Lord of Hosts, that probest 
the righteous, seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy 
vengeance on them; for unto thee have I laid open my 
cause." Thus we see that he had acknowledged his sins, 
and had made a full confession. 



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And again when Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans, 
he was set at liberty, and pensioned by order of Nebuchad- 
nezzar. Jer. 40:4, 5 (Leeser), "And now, behold, I 
have freed thee this day from the chains which were upon 
thy hands. If it seem good in thy eyes to come with me to 
Bab}lon, come, and I will direct my eye unto thee ; but if it 
seem ill in thy eyes to come with me to Babylon, forbear; 
behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good 
and proper in thy eyes to go, thither go. And as he did not 
yet turn about, he said, Go then back to Gedaliah the son of 
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon 
hath appointed governor over the cities of Judah, and 
dwell with him in the midst of the people; or wheresoever 
it seemeth good in thy eyes to go, go. And the captain 
of the guard gave him an allowance and a present (his 
pension), and then dismissed him." 

What nations were to be thus pulled down and 
destroyed by this foreordained prophet of destruction? 
Jer. 25:15-29 (Leeser), "For thus hath said the Lord 
the God of Israel unto me, Take the cup of the wine of 
this fury out of my hand, and cause all the nations to 
whom I send thee to drink it. And they shall drink, and 
reel about, and be mad, because of the sword that I will 
send among them. And I took the cup out of the hand 
of the Lord, and caused to drink all the nations, unto 
whom the Lord hath sent me; Jerusalem and the cities 
of Judah (but not the House of Israel), and its kings, 
and its princes, to make them a ruin, an astonishment, a 
derision, and a curse ; as it is this day ; Pharaoh the king 
of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his 
people ; and all the confederated nations, and all the kings 
of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the 



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Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the 
remnant of Ashdod; Edom, and Moab, and the children 
of Amnion, and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings 
of Zidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea, 
Dedan (Japan), and Thema, and Buz, and all those that 
have their hair cut round (Chinese) ; and all the kings of 
Arabia, and all the kings of the confederated nations that 
dwell in the wilderness ; and all the kings of Zimri, and all 
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; and all 
the kings of the north, that are far and that are near, one 
with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which 
are upon the face of the earth; and the kings of Sheshach 
shall drink after them. And thou shalt say unto them, 
Thus hath said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Drink 
ye and become drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no 
more, because of the sword, which I am sending among 
you. And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup out of 
thy hand to drink, that thou shalt say unto them, Thus 
hath said the Lord of Hosts, Ye must certainly drink; for 
lo, on the city that is called by my name (Jerusalem), I 
begin to inflict evil, and shall ye remain utterly unpun- 
ished? Ye shall not remain unpunished; for a sword am 
I calling up over all the inhabitants of the earth, saith 
the Lord of Hosts." 

This is the destructive part of his mission; but where 
did he build and plant? for that demands fulfillment as 
well as this. We must find it. 

To only one of these nations that were thus pulled 
down and destroyed was there a promise of restoration, or 
rebuilding; and that was God's own, the Hebrews, Israel 
and Judah reunited. Jer. 23:3, 6 (Leeser), "And I 
will indeed gather the remnant of my flock together out of 



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all the countries whither I have driven them; and I will 
bring them back again to their fold; and they shall be 
fruitful and multiply. Behold, the days are coming, saith 
the Lord, when I will raise up unto David a righteous 
Sprout, and he shall reign as King, and prosper, and he 
shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. In 
his days shall Judah be helped and Israel shall dwell in 
safety; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
the Lord Our Kighteousness." Jer. 30:11, 12, 19, 
(Leeser), "For with thee am I, saith the Lord, to save 
thee; though I make a full end of all the nations whither 
I have scattered thee, yet of thee will I not make a full 
end; but I will correct thee in moderation and will not 
leave thee altogether unpunished. For thus hath said the 
Lord, Incurable is thy bruise, and painful thy wound. 
And there shall proceed out of them thanksgiving, and the 
voice of them that make merry; and I will multiply them, 
and they shall not be diminished; I will also make them 
numerous, and they shall not be made few in number." 
Jer. 31:27, 28 (Leeser), "Behold, the days are coming, 
saith the Lord, when I will sow the House of Israel and 
the House of Judah with the seed of man, and with the 
seed of cattle. And it shall come to pass, that just as I 
have watched over them, to pluck up, and to pull down, 
and to overthow, and to destroy, and to do harm ; so will I 
watch over them, to build up, and to plant, saith the Lord." 

Where did Jeremiah plant this nation, and where have 
they been kept through all these centuries? The word of 
God cannot fail. 

The land of Israel was laid waste by Nebuchadnezzar; 
and Zedekiah, their last king, was carried away to Babylon 
to die there. Gedaliah was appointed governor of Judah, 



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and Zedekialrs daughters, who were the great grand- 
children of Jeremiah, were left in his care. We have also 
seen that Jeremiah, when he was released from his bonds, 
remained in the land. 

There were two other characters also whose lives the 
Lord insured who remained in the land. We need to see 
their insurance policies also, before we go further. These 
were Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, who had saved Jeremiah 
from the miry pit, and Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe. Jer. 
39 :16-18, "Go and speak to Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, 
saying, Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; 
Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil and 
not for good; I will deliver thee in that day, saith the 
Lord; and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the 
men of whom thou art afraid. For I will surely deliver 
thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life 
shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy 
trust in me, saith the Lord." To Baruch he said, (Jer. 
45:5), "Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek 
them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, 
saith the Lord ; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey 
in all places whither thou goest." 

Gedaliah, the newly appointed governor, was slain by 
one Ishmael, who led a conspiracy against him; and the 
king's daughters and Jeremiah, Ebed-melech, and Baruch 
were all taken prisoners by this Ishmael. They were res- 
cued by Johanan and brought back. Johanan and his 
followers then enquired of the Lord through Jeremiah as 
to whether they should go into Egypt or not. He told 
them that their safety depended on their remaining in the 
land of Judea, but that if they went into Egypt, the sword 
and every evil awaited them. 



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Although they had pledged themselves to obey the voice 
of the Lord, they rejected the message, and fled into Egypt, 
as described in Jer. 43 :4-7, "So Johanan the son of 
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the 
people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord God, to dwell in 
the land of Judah. But Johanan the son of Kareah, and 
all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, 
that were returned from all the nations whither they had 
been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; the men 
and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, 
and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the 
guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son 
of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the 
son of Neriah. And they came into the land of Egypt; 
for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord God; and they 
came unto Taphanes." 

Just before the fall of Jerusalem when everything 
seemed lost, and when the future of the land was as black 
as the bosom of a storm cloud, at the command of the 
Lord, Jeremiah bought a field of his cousin, and had the 
deeds all signed and sealed in legal manner, with the 
assurance from the Lord that houses and fields would yet 
be bought in that land. He then delivered these title 
deeds into the hands of Baruch, his scribe, and told him 
to put them into an earthen vessel, and hide them for many 
days. We are also told in II Maccabees 2 :4-8, that in a 
certain sacred writing, the prophet, Jeremy, being warned 
of God, "commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go 
with him, as he went forth into the mountain where Moses 
climbed up, and saw the heritage of God. And when 
Jeremy came thither, he found a hollow cave wherein he 
laid the tabernacle and the ark, and the altar of incense, 



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and so stopped the door. And some of those that followed 
him came to mark the way; but they could not find it. 
Which when Jeremy perceived he blamed them, saying, 
As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that 
God gather his people again together, and receive them 
unto mercy. Then shall the Lord show them these things, 
and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also 
as it was showed unto Moses, and as when Solomon desired 
that the place might be honorably sanctified." 

After Jeremiah was carried into Egypt, the Chaldeans 
scoured the land again (Jer. 52:30), and found only 745 
persons, whom they also carried away. This left the land 
wholly desolate for a time. During his stay in Egypt he 
foretold the utter destruction of the Jews who had fled 
there for refuge, a part of which prophecy is as follows: 
Jer. 44 :14, 28, "For I will punish them that dwell in the 
land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, 
by the famine, and by the pestilence; so that none of the 
remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt 
to sojourn there shall escape, or be left, to return into the 
land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to 
dwell there; for none shall return save such as shall escape. 
And they that escape the sword shall return out of the 
land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; 
and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land 
of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall 
stand, mine, or theirs." 

Who are those that escaped? and where did they go? 
We can hardly be mistaken as to some of them; namely, 
Jeremiah, Baruch and Ebed-melech, whose lives had been 
promised them, and the king's daughters. They must 
surely have constituted the valuable part of this remnant; 



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for we shall see that one of these daughters was to be 
planted on the mountain of the height of Israel, as is told 
by Ezekiel, in his 17th chapter. 

Now, the fact that their lives had been guaranteed to 
them and the fact of the record of these sacred things that 
were hidden, the Title deeds, the Ark, the Tabernacle, and 
the Altar of Incense, are strong presumptive evidence that 
the Lord was executing a hidden plan to transfer these 
persons, and these sacred treasures to another land, for 
use and safe keeping. As Totten well says, "We main- 
tain that Jeremiah's mission must have been completed 
somewhere, and if anywhere, then elsewhere." Doubtless 
the stone of Testimony which now constitutes a part of 
the English throne, was also among these sacred things 
which were rescued, for it has an Israelitish history. 

There is much legendary history that Jeremiah brought 
all these sacred relics into Ireland, and that they are treas- 
ured there in the tower of Tara, unto this day, ready to be 
revealed in the last times. Here is his planting of the 
tender twig of the kingdom of Judah into Israel. 

Hence, when Jerusalem fell with the scepter in the 
hands of Zedekiah, Jeremiah took Zedekiah's daughters into 
Egypt and thence to Ireland, and one of them married 
the king of Ireland, who was a Danite; and thus the 
scepter of Judah was placed over Israel. This transfer 
of the daughter of Zedekiah from Palestine by the way of 
Eg3^pt to Ireland, is given in Ezekiel's riddle. Ezek. 
17:2-7, "Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a 
parable unto the House of Israel; and say, Thus saith the 
Lord God; a great eagle with great wings, long winged, 
full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto 
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar/' 



66 THE COMING KINGDOM 

This great eagle was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. 
The cedar of Lebanon was Zedekiah, king of Judah. "He 
cropped off the top of his young twigs (Nebuchadnezzar 
slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes) and carried it 
(that is the cedar, Zedekiah) into a land of traffic (Meso- 
potamia). He set it in a city of merchants (Babylon). 
He took also of the seed out of the land (the Jewish nation) 
and planted it in a fruitful field (Mesopotamia) ; he 
planted it by great waters (Tigris and Euphrates) and set 
it as a willow tree. And it grew and became a spreading 
vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, 
and the roots thereof were under him ; so it became a vine, 
and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs." 

The Jews in Babylon were dependent upon the king of 
Babylon, and turned toward him as a trailing vine, but 
they became fruitful and multiplied. They were a humili- 
ated and conquered people, and kept base, lest they should 
gather strength and courage and try to regain their liberty. 

It must be noticed that this riddle was put to the 
House of Israel, and not to the House of Judah ; because 
it concerned all of the House of Israel, and only one of 
the House of Judah, as we shall see in the exposition of 
the latter part of the riddle. It had now been about 380 
years since the tribe of Dan first left Palestine and went 
to Denmark and thence to Ireland, about thirty years less 
than the time since Columbus discovered America, to the 
present time. 

The United States of America now has a population of 
about 80,000,000. Dan could easily have had 25,000,000 
or 30,000,000 in those western lands by this time. Let us 
use our good common sense in thinking of these things, as 
we do in other affairs of life, and many of these mystified 



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things will become plain to us. God had sworn to David 
that he would establish the throne of his kingdom forever ; 
and we must see that it is his hand that is working out this 
problem, and making it possible for the scepter not to 
depart from Judah till Shiloh comes. 

This prophecy of Ezekiel was given, probably, about six 
years before Zedekiah was taken, when the scepter seem- 
ingly departed from Judah. But the hand of the mighty 
God of Jacob had planted Israel in these western islands 
for the transfer of the scepter in the hands of Judah, that 
his word should not be broken when he said, "David shall 
never want a man to reign over the House of Israel." 

We will now take up the latter part of this riddle. 
In verses 22-24, which concerns this branch of the Hebrew 
nation, "Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the 
highest branch of the high cedar and will set it. I will 
crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one" 
(Zedekiah's daughter) and will plant it upon a high moun- 
tain and eminent." Here we see that this tender twig was 
not planted where the cedar was taken, but on an eminent 
mountain. This mountain is England, or at first Ireland, 
then Scotland, but finally England, where the House of 
Israel was already a great and ruling power when Jeru- 
salem fell. "In the mountain of the height of Israel will 
I plant it ; and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit, 
and be a goodly cedar; and under it shall dwell all fowl 
of every wing; and in the shadow of the branches thereof 
shall they dwell/' This is the parable of the mustard seed 
in Matthew 13. 

Great Britain became the great western power, and 
later the mistress of the seas, and under her protection 
there came the peoples of every land to take shelter under 



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her branches. "And all the trees of the field (that is, all 
the nations) shall know that I, the Lord, have brought 
down the high tree (Judah), and have exalted the low tree 
(Israel), and have dried up the green tree (Judah), and 
have made the dry tree (Israel) to flourish. I, the Lord, 
have spoken and have done it." 

All this was done that God might keep his covenant 
with David. By this means the scepter was carried to Ire- 
land in the hands of Judah, and planted over Israel. The 
name of this tender twig, the great granddaughter of Jere- 
miah, was said to be Tea-Tephi, one of Zedekiah's daugh- 
ters. Jeremiah took her from Egypt to Ireland, where 
she married Heremon, the Danite king of Israel. From 
that pair can be traced all the Irish, Scottish, and English 
kings and queens to the present day. 

King Edward the VII has a written genealogy back to 
David, and still sways the scepter over Israel. And thus 
the Scriptures are fulfilled, and we believe that the British 
throne will continue until Jesus comes to reign in Jeru- 
salem over the twelve tribes of Israel. 

Queen Victoria recognized that her kingdom and do- 
minion belonged to the Christ; for she said on her dying 
bed, "0 that the Lord Jesus would come in his glory before 
I die." Her chaplain by her bedside said, "Why, Your 
Majesty, do you wish that the Lord Jesus would come in 
his glory before you die ?" "Because I can think of noth- 
ing that would give me greater pleasure than to deliver to 
him with my own hands the crown of Great Britain and 
India." By this she acknowledged that it was his by 
right. God has preserved it by a hidden plan. How 
gloriously and mysteriously God works ! He has not for- 
gotten his covenants, nor has he for a single moment turned 



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away from his servant David. His kingdom was estab- 
lished forever, and he has many times declared that it is 
his purpose that Jesus, the Christ, shall sit on the throne 
of that kingdom, and reign over the twelve tribes of Israel. 

Totten well says, "But how, in fact, even those Jews 
and Christians who have most prominently asserted the 
absolute integrity of the Scriptures, and have most fear- 
lessly challenged candid investigation, and have most 
broadly admitted the supremacy of human judgment in 
weighing evidences, have been able to close their eyes to 
the fatal hiatus in the special story of David's seed, his 
scepter and his throne, is an example of human irration- 
ality without a parallel in religious credulity." 

Here then we see in the British Isles a kingdom which 
was set up, and planted and builded in "the time of these 
kings/* It is the stone cut out of the mountain without 
hands ; for no human hands ditched the English Channel. 
It is the mountain of the height of Israel where the tender 
twig, Tea-Tephi, was planted. It has the earmarks of 
Israel, or the marks of identity as no other nation upon the 
face of the earth has. In the British Isles and in America 
Israel was planted in a place of their own and they have 
moved no more, nor are the children of wickedness able 
to afflict them as before. They are the conquering and un- 
conquered race. They rule over many nations but over 
them the Gentiles do not rule. God has sowed them with 
the seed of man and the seed of beast. He has made them 
both numerous and wealthy. And we believe that these 
conditions will continue until Jesus comes. God's cove- 
nants to David and to Israel are true, and have been faith- 
fully kept, even though our blinded eyes have failed to see 
it. "Let God be true and every man a liar." 



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Deductions. 

(1) David's throne has never ceased. 

(2) The kingdom of Great Britain was set up "in 
the days of these kings/' 

(3) It is the stone cut out of the mountains without 
human hands. 

(4) It must endure forever. 

(5) Great Britain is the present day continuance of 
David's kingdom. 

(6) This makes clear the integrity of Scripture. 

(7) Jesus will claim it when lie comes. 



CHAPTEE V. 



Jesus, the Christ, is to Sit on David's Throne. 



Nothing short of a theocratic government will ever ac- 
complish the government of this world. By a theocratic 
government we mean nothing short of Jesus Christ as 
King on the earth. Every form of government thus far 
tried by men has been a manifest failure. Some, indeed, 
are better than others. We boast of our democratic, or 
republican government, and shout ourselves hoarse over 
its achievements, and yet how apparent is our failure to 
govern the trusts or to suppress the liquor traffic, or to 
close the gambling dens, or to prevent murder or rapine 
in any great city of our fair land. 

FAILURE is writ large upon the gates of every large 
city in the world. Under cover of night visit the saloons, 
the gambling dens, the houses of ill-fame, the dives, and 
the homes in the slums and be convinced that municipal 
and state laws are constantly violated, and that the execu- 
tors of law wink at those things and fill their pockets with 
the gain therefrom. Read the daily press and see what 
city is free from graft. Count the bank officials who have 
gone wrong, and be convinced that our government is a 
failure. The people are not governed, they are only in a 
measure restrained. The poor are oppressed, the innocent 
are condemned, justice is thwarted, and wrong prevails. 
A subtle power of evil is at work. There is an enemy in 
our midst, a traitor, a rebel against God and the laws of 

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righteousness, who seduces and leads into rebellion the 
majority of men. It is Satan, the prince and ruler of this 
world. He is the prince of the powers of the air, — the 
wicked, unseen spirits in our midst. We wrestle with 
them at every turn in our efforts to suppress the evils that 
curse this world. But God has planned that this usurper, 
this squatter, shall be ousted, and completely dethroned and 
imprisoned. 

To that end he has declared that it is his purpose to 
place his son, Jesus, the Christ, on the Throne of David 
to subdue all of these kingdoms and the powers of evil 
therein. 

We have seen by God's covenant with David, that the 
Throne of his Kingdom should be established forever, and 
under David and Solomon it was established, and brought 
to great magnificence and glory. Under Solomon it be- 
came a spectacle to the world of the most glorious kingdom 
that the world had ever seen. 

God gave to Solomon wisdom, and wealth, and honor, 
and resplendent glory, that he might prefigure, in some 
measure, the magnificence of the kingdom when it is placed 
in the hands of David's greater Son, the Christ of God. 
He caused him to build the temple after his own divine 
plan, with all of its beauty, and costly ornaments, that in 
these it might foreshadow the splendor and beauty, and in- 
describable magnificence of the temple and city yet to be, 
when Jesus sits on that Throne, in that city, and reigns 
over that people. Solomon was the greatest king that ever 
wore a crown, but behold, a greater than Solomon shall sit 
on that Throne ! 

David reigned over the twelve tribes of Israel; and 
hence, he who sits on David's Throne must likewise reign 



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over the twelve tribes of Israel. Christ is to sit on David's 
Throne as the Scriptures man}' times declare. If it were 
written in English law, as man)' times, that Mr. A. B. 
is to sit on Queen Victoria's throne, as it is written in the 
Scriptures that Christ is to sit on David's Throne, no per- 
son in all the world would mistake the meaning of that 
law. No one would ever claim that Mr. A. B. had any 
right to reign over the Eussians, or the Spaniards, or any 
other people, except the people that Queen Victoria reigned 
over. Why then should any one mistake the Scriptures 
on this subject? The old and New Testaments bear uni- 
form testimony on this subject. They give no uncertain 
sound. Strange that religious teachers have failed to 
grasp the thought ! But "blindness in part is happened to 
Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." 

What shall the awakening , of the ministry to these 
things be, but life from the dead? The word of God is 
the sword of the Spirit. The truth is the only thing he 
can bless, and the truth alone can make us free, Then 
may we expect showers of blessings. When we have com- 
plied with the conditions, he will open the windows of 
heaven and pour us out a blessing so that there will not 
be room enough to receive it. God speed the day ! We 
need it. 

Isa. 9:5, 6 (Leeser), "For unto us a child is born, 
unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon 
his shoulders, and his name is called Wonderful, Coun- 
sellor of the Mighty God, of the Everlasting Father, the 
Prince of Peace; for promoting the increase of the gov- 
ernment and for peace without end, upon the throne of 
David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sup- 
port it through justice and righteousness, from henceforth 



74 THE COMING KINGDOM 

and unto eternity: the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do 
this." 

Jer. 23:5, 6, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 
that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch (Jesus) 
and he shall reign as King and shall execute justice and 
judgment in the earth. In his day shall Judah be saved, 
and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby 
he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness," or Christ 
Our Righteousness. 

Isa. 41:21. "Produce your cause, saith the Lord; 
bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob." 

Zech. 6:12, IS (Leeser), "Thus speaketh the Lord of 
Hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is Branch, and 
he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the 
temple of the Lord ; even he shall build the temple of the 
Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and he shall sit and 
rule upon his Throne; and a priest shall be upon his own 
throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them 
both." 

Isa. 11:1-4 (Leeser), "And there shall come forth a 
shoot out of the stem of Jesse, and a Sprout shall spring 
out of his roots. And there shall rest upon him the Spirit 
of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the 
Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of knowledge 
and fear of the Lord. And he shall be animated by the 
fear of the Lord, and not after the sight of his eyes shall 
he judge, and not after the hearing of his ears shall he 
decide; but he shall judge with righteousness the poor, 
and decide with equity for the suffering ones of the earth ; 
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, 
and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." 

Luke 1:30-34, "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found 



THE COMING KINGDOM 75 

favor with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy 
womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name 
Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the son of 
the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the 
Throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the 
house of Jacob for ever; and of his Kingdom there shall 
be no end." 

Acts 2:30, (David) therefore being a prophet, and 
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of 
the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise 
up Christ to sit on his Throne/' 

So we see that it has been decreed from the courts of 
heaven that Jesus, the Christ, is to sit on the Throne of 
David, and rule in righteousness the meek of the earth. 
~No matter what men may say or teach concerning the 
spiritual reign of Christ, God has decreed that he shall 
have a material Kingdom here on earth, and that he shall 
sit on David's throne and reign over the twelve tribes of 
Israel, in Jerusalem, in Palestine. This is the only King- 
dom of Christ spoken of in the Bible. The sooner we rec- 
ognize this fact the better. Let us stop all this rubbish 
about a mythical, ethereal, intangible, unbiblical, spiritual 
kingdom, apart from his earthly reign in Jerusalem. If 
God knew anything about such a spiritual kingdom he 
never told us anything concerning it. The preaching of 
the Kingdom of heaven is to get volunteers for the King, 
and in that sense only is there any kingdom in the hearts 
of men. It is only their acknowledgment of the King, it 
is not the Kingdom. Suppose agents go all over the land 
taking the names of those who are willing to enlist in the 
army under a certain general, it would be the merest sham 



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to say that such a general had a large and efficient army 
before he had assembled them together. 

Christ's Kingdom will be the most real, and the most 
material Kingdom the world has ever seen, or ever will 
see; for there will be no pretence or sham about it. It 
will be real in its righteousness, it will mete out real justice, 
and it will be real in its wealth ; for the kings of the earth 
will bring their glory and their wealth into it. The mag- 
nificence of Jerusalem in the days of Solomon will be so 
far overshadowed by the wealth, the artizanship, the beauty, 
and the splendor of Jerusalem in Christ's reign, that the 
former will scarcely come into mind. Why not accept 
as literal the statements that the streets will be of gold, 
the gates of pearl, and the windows of agate ? "For brass 
I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for 
wood, brass ; and for stones, iron." 

Every statement concerning the first advent of Christ 
was absolutely literal, and why should we not accept the 
statement of his second coming equally so? He was to 
be born of a virgin, was a literal statement, and it was 
literally fulfilled. He was to be born in Bethlehem; like- 
wise literal. He was to be called a Nazarene ; literal. He 
was to be despised and rejected of men; absolutely literal. 
He was to give his back to the smiters, and his cheek to 
them that plucked off the hair ; fulfilled to the letter. He 
was to be numbered with the transgressors; crucified be- 
tween two thieves. He was to make his grave with the 
rich in his death; buried in Joseph's tomb. So we see 
that there was no spiritualizing of these statements into a 
mythical idea of interpretation. They were plain state- 
ments of facts that occurrred just as stated. Now analogy 
of interpretation demands that we shall give the absolute 






THE COMING KINGDOM 77 

literal meaning to every statement concerning his second 
coming, and concerning his reign on earth, unless there is 
a certainty that the language is figurative or parabolic. 

Psa. 182:11, IS, 11>, "The Lord hath sworn in truth 
unto David; he will not turn from it: of the fruit of thy 
body will I set upon thy Throne. For the Lord hath 
chosen Zion (Jerusalem) ; he hath desired it for his habi- 
tation. This is my rest forever; here will I dwell; for I 
have desired it." 

These seven times hath the Lord declared that Christ 
shall sit on David's Throne and reign, besides many other 
passages that are built on this thought. Let us away with 
the present erroneous thought that Christ is already reign- 
ing; that somehow he is in heaven sitting on the right 
hand of the Father, and that he is reigning in the hearts 
of men and women here on earth; and that this consti- 
tutes his Kingdom. How flimsy the thought! How dis- 
honoring to God ! What a discount on his word ! This 
is less conceivable than many of the fairy tales that we 
used to tell our children. If Jesus, the Christ, never has 
any more of a Kingdom than he has now, it will be a 
pitiable spectacle of a Kingdom for the Son of God. 

The Jews knew that David's kingdom was the King- 
dom of Christ; for on that day that Jesus made his tri- 
umphal entry into Jerusalem (Mark 11 :10), they cried out 
saying: "Blessed be the Kingdom of our father David, 
that cometh in the name of the Lord." And we believe 
that King Edward VII is the present day representative 
of David's line, and that he sits upon the Throne of the 
Lord Jesus Christ over Israel. It is evident also that 
when the Christ begins to reign, there will be a breaking 
up of all the kingdoms of this world, and a subduing and 



78 THE COMING KINGDOM 

blotting out of all the powers of evil that now oppose the 
righteous laws of God. Our great and small cities, which 
are Sodoms of iniquity, will be almost completely depopu- 
lated during the tribulation, and righteousness and peace 
will spread over the earth as the waters cover the sea. 

Much is said by religious teachers about our going to 
heaven, and but little about the reign of Christ, which is 
to be here upon this earth. The Bible says very little 
about our going to heaven, but it says much about the 
Kingdom of Heaven which is to be here on this earth 
when Jesus shall sit on the throne of David and reign in 
glory. Doubtless the ready ones will be taken to heaven 
to the marriage of the Lamb, but our stay there will be 
only for a short time, after which, Jude tells us, that 
Jesus will come back to the earth attended by ten thousand 
of his saints to execute judgment upon all of the ungodly. 
He will then sit upon David's throne and reign over the 
twelve tribes of Israel. 



CHAPTEE VI. 



The Twelve Tribes of Israel Will Be the Kingdom 
of the Lord Jesus, the Christ. 



Never for one moment has God turned from his origi- 
nal purpose to make a great and mighty nation of the 
twelve tribes of Israel. In his wrath he smote them and 
scattered them for their iniquity, but in his great loving 
kindness will he gather them, and place his Son over them 
as their King. The whole Hebrew nation will be the 
Kingdom over which Jesus, the Christ and his Bride, the 
Church, will reign. Christ will not reign over the Church. 
She is his bride and Queen, and will reign with him. 
Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII, can 
never be the kingdom of King Edward. Should any one 
make such a claim, it would bring him into ridicule with 
all thoughtful people. And yet that is just what the 
preachers have told us from almost every pulpit in the 
land about Christ and the Church. 

It is amazing to read these plain statements in the 
word of God, and then to remember what we have been 
taught by the preachers of every denomination throughout 
the world. But let us see what the Scriptures teach about 
the Kingdom of Christ. I Chr. 28 :5, David said, "And 
of all my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) 
he hath chosen Solomon, my son, to sit upon the Throne 
of the Lord (Jesus) over Israel." I Chr. 29:23, "Then 
Solomon sat on the Throne of the Lord (Jesus) as king 

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instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel 
obeyed him/' II Chr. 13 :8, "And now ye think to with- 
stand the Kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons 
of David ; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with 
you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods." 
Here David's throne is thrice called the Throne of the 
Lord. 

Jer. 28:5-8, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, 
that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he 
shall reign as King and deal wisely, and shall execute jus- 
tice and righteousness in the land. In his day Judah shall 
be saved and Israel shall dwell safely ; and this is his name 
whereby he shall be called; The Lord Our Righteousness. 
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they 
shall no more say, as the Lord liveth, winch brought up the 
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, but as the 
Lord liveth, which brought up, and who led the seed of 
the House of Israel out of the north country, and from all 
the countries whither I have driven them. And they shall 
dwell in their own land." 

Here it is declared that Judah and Israel shall again 
be gathered into their own land, and that Jesus, the 
Christ, shall be their King. Let no one dare to say that 
this is the church, or, as they often say, spiritual Israel; 
for that would be wholly unwarranted by the word of 
God. See how particular the Spirit was to indict Judah 
and Israel; and who will presume to say that he did not 
mean what he said ? 

Jer. 80:1-8, 9, "The word that came to Jeremiah from 
the Lord, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, 
saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto 
thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, 



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that I will bring again the captivity of my people, Israel 
and Judah, and I will cause them to return unto the land 
that I gave their fathers, and they shall possess it. But 
they shall serve the Lord their God, and David (that is 
Christ) their King, whom I will raise up unto them." 

Jer. 31:1, "At the same time, saith the Lord, will I 
be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be 
my people." Jer. 33 :14-17, "Behold, the days come, 
saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which 
I have promised unto the House of Israel and to the House 
of Judah. In those days and at that time, will I cause 
the Branch of righteousness (the Christ) to grow up unto 
David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in 
the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jeru- 
salem shall dwell safely; and this is the name whereby he 
shall be called, The Lord Our Bighteousness. For thus 
saith the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon 
the Throne of the House of Israel." 

These four times hath God witnessed to the fact that 
Israel and Judah must be regathered, and that Christ is to 
be their King on the Throne of David. Even at the risk 
of weariness to the reader, and seeming monotony to the 
text, and criticism from the critics, we mean to pile up 
this accumulative evidence to an incontestable point that 
the Christ must be King over the Twelve tribes of Israel. 

Eze. 37 : 15-25, "The word of the Lord came unto me 
saying, Moreover, thou Son of man, take thee one stick 
and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of 
Israel his companions (the Jews) ; then take another stick 
and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and 
for all the children of Israel his companions (the ten 
tribes). And join them one to another into one stick; and 



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they shall become one in thy hand. And when the children 
of thy people shall speak unto thee saying, Wilt thou not 
show us what thou meanest by these things? say unto 
them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the 
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the 
tribes of Israel his fellows (the ten tribes), and will put 
them with him, even with the stick of Judah (the Jews), 
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in thy 
hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in 
thy hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus 
saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the children of 
Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone, and 
I will gather them on every side, and bring them into their 
own land. And I will make them one nation in the land 
upon the mountains of Israel; and one King (the Christ) 
shall be King to them all ; and they shall no more be two 
nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms 
any more at all. And David, my servant (the Christ), 
shall be King over them ; and they shall have one Shepherd ; 
and they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my 
statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land 
that I gave unto Jacob, my servant, wherein your fathers 
have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they, and 
their children, and their children's children, forever; and 
my servant David (the Christ) shall be their Prince for- 
ever." 

Joel 3:1, 16, 17, 20, 21, "For behold, in those days, 
and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of 
Judah and Jerusalem, the Lord (Jesus) also shall roar 
out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the 
heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord (Jesus) 
will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the 



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children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord 
your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain ; then shall 
Jerusalem be holy and there shall no stranger pass through 
her any more." You see it is the Jerusalem through which 
the strangers have passed. "But Judah shall dwell for- 
ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation; for I 
will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed; for the 
Lord (Jesus) dwelleth in Zion." 

The separation of the two houses, Israel and Judah, 
and the dispersion of the Jews, made a breach in the king- 
dom of David, but it did not destroy it, and that breach is 
to be healed. Amos. 9:11, 14, 15, "In that day will I 
raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close 
up the breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his ruins, and 
I will build it as in the days of old ; and I will bring again 
the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the 
waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall also plant 
vineyards, and drink the wine thereof, and they shall also 
make gardens and eat the fruit of them. And I will" plant 
them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled 
up out of their land, which I have given them, saith the 
Lord thy God." 

Matt. 2 :6, "And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah, 
art not the least among the princes of Judah, for out of 
thee shall come a Governor which shall rule my people 
Israel/ 5 Luke 1 :32, 33, "He shall be great, and shall 
be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall 
give unto him the Throne of his father David. And he 
shall reign over the House of Jacob forever; and of his 
Kingdom there shall be no end." 

Surely these passages are sufficient to establish, forever 
the fact that the twelve tribes of Israel will be the King- 



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dom of the Christ. Of course this involves the gathering 
of the Jews and the ten tribes into the land of Palestine, 
the land that God gave unto their fathers for an everlast- 
ing possession. This, then, will constitute the subject of 
the next chapter. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Thb Regathering of Israel, or The Restoration of 
All Things. 



God nursed his infant nation in the cradle of Egypt 
for 400 years, from a company of 70 souls into a great and 
mighty host of probably 3,000,000 of people. There were 
600,000 fighting men over 20 years old when they escaped 
from their bondage, and it seems a reasonable estimate to 
count five souls to each soldier over 20 years of age. Ever 
since that miraculous deliverance God has reminded them 
that he is the mighty God who brought them up out of the 
land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage. It is yet 
referred to as the crowning act of God's glory with refer- 
ence to his people. But the Scriptures tell us that there is 
an event yet future, a deliverance for this same people, 
that will so far eclipse this deliverance from Egypt that it 
will be forgotten and not come into mind. It is amazing 
that the oft repeated statement of such an event, and 
couched in such emphatic language as we find, and in such 
unmistakable terms should have been entirely overlooked 
by biblical scholars and wise men, through all of this 
gospel age. There seems but one explanation; viz., "that 
blindness has happened to Israel until the fullness of the 
Gentiles be come in." How else could such Scriptures as 
the following have escaped the thoughtful consideration of 
religious teachers ? How could they ignore the regathering 
of the whole twelve tribes into one nation again ? How 

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could they have taught, as they have, that the ten tribes 
have all been dissipated among the nations never to appear 
any more ? Listen to this : 

Jer. 16:lJf, 15, "Therefore, behold, the days come, 
saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord 
liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of the 
land of Egypt; but, The Lord liveth that brought up the 
children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all 
the land? whither I had driven them; and I will bring 
them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers." 
Jer. 23 :7, 8, "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith 
the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth 
that brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt; but, 
The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed 
of the House of Israel out of the north country, and from 
all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall 
dwell in their own land." 

Not a lost sheep of them will escape the Shepherd's 
care and finding; for it is said (Jer. 16 :16, 17), "Behold, 
I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall 
fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and 
they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every 
hill, and out of the holes of the rocks; for mine eyes are 
upon all their ways ; they are not hid from my face, neither 
is their iniquity hid from my eyes." 

Jesus said to the Jews in John 10 :14, 16, "I am the 
good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of 
mine. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold ; 
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; 
and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd." Now it 
seems plain and beyond doubt that Jesus was speaking to 
the House of Judah concerning the House of Israel, and 



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assuring them of the regathering of the whole twelve 
tribes into one kingdom again when he himself would be 
their King. 

This regathering of Israel is called in Acts 3:21 the 
restitution, or the "restoration of all things." In the 
mouths and minds of many people this has become a set 
phrase, which is very misleading, and very subversive of 
the truth; and the difficulty arises by taking a phrase out 
of a full sentence which has a most important limiting 
clause attached. The limiting clause is "Which God hath 
spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the 
world began." This clause limits the "all things" to the 
things that the prophets have prophesied should be restored. 

There has been much false teaching on this subject 
of the restoration. Teachers have so magnified the church 
beyond the Scriptural warrant, and lost sight of the King- 
dom, that they have spent all their energies on the idea of 
a restored Church. There is no promise of such a restora- 
tion in God's word. There may be a restored Church, but 
God has surely not promised it. On the other hand we 
are told by Paul that there shall be a great falling away 
from the Church just before the coming of the Lord. 

The Eestoration. 

It is that which the prophets have declared should be 
restored. We cannot go outside of that relative clause. 
We cannot go beyond what the prophets have written. 
Here it is : They have promised time and again, over and 
over again, that it is God's purpose to restore the ten lost 
tribes of Israel, together with the Jews, which are two 
tribes, into one nation again. If there is any other resto- 



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ration mentioned in the prophecies, we have been unable 
to find it. 

No less than sixteen prophets have spoken clearly and 
unmistakably of these days of restoration; viz., Nathan, 
David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, 
Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Zechariah, 
Malachi, and Zacharias ; together with three of the apostles, 
Peter, James and Paul. 

We will now introduce the testimony of these sixteen 
prophets, and three apostles as to what the Eestoration is. 

Nathan. 

II Samuel 7:10, "Moreover, I will appoint a place 
for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may 
dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither 
shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as 
aforetime." 

David. 

Psa. 89:Jf., 5 (Leeser), "I have made a covenant with 
my elect, I have sworn unto David my servant, To eter- 
nity will I establish thy seed, and I will build up thy 
Throne from generation to generation." 

Isaiah. 

Isa. 1:25-21, "I will turn my hand upon thee, and 
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 
and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy coun- 
sellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be 
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion 
shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with 
righteousness." 



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Jeremiah. 

Jer. 23:3, If, "And I will gather the remnant of my 
flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and 
I will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be 
fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over 
them that shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, 
nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the 
Lord." 

Jer. 24:6, 7, "For I will set my eyes upon them for 
good, and I will bring them again to this land ; and I will 
build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant 
them, and not pluck them up, and I will give them a heart 
to know me, that I am the Lord ; and they shall be my peo- 
ple, and I will be their God ; for they shall return unto me 
with their whole heart." 

Jer. 30:2, 3, 10, 11, 18, 21, 2k, "Thus speaketh the 
Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that 
I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, 
saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my 
people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord, and I will cause 
them to return to the land that I gave unto their fathers, 
and they shall possess it. Fear thou not, my servant 
Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, Israel; for, 
lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land 
of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, 
and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am 
with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee ; and though I make 
a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, 
yet will I not make a full end of thee ; but I will correct thee 
in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. 
Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and 
have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be 



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builded on her own heap ; and the palace shall remain after 
the manner thereof. And their nobles shall be of them- 
selves. (In the restoration no Gentile will lord it over Is- 
rael.) And their leader shall proceed from the midst of 
them ; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall ap- 
proach unto me ; for who is this that will venture of his own 
heart to aproach unto me ? saith the Lord. The fierceness 
of the anger of the Lord will not turn back, until he have 
done it, and until he have fulfilled the purposes of his 
heart ; in the latter days shall ye understand this." 

This prophecy of Jeremiah was uttered during the last 
forty years of the kingdom of Judah, just before the Baby- 
lonian captivity, and a hundred years after the House of 
Israel had been carried away. It cannot refer to the return 
of the Jews from Babylon, for that regathering did not in- 
clude the House of Israel. The fact that their nobles and 
their leaders shall proceed from their own midst is proof 
that it will not be a Pilate nor a Herod that will lord it over 
them when this prophecy is fulfilled. And we are begin- 
ning to understand it in these latter days. Oh what a glori- 
ous heritage awaits Israel when Jesus comes ! 

Jer. 31 :1, J+-9, 27, 28, "At the same time, saith the Lord, 
will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall 
be my people. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be 
built, oh thou virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned 
with thy tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances with them 
that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines on the moun- 
tains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat 
them as common things. For there shall be a day, that the 
watchman on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let 
us go up to Zion, unto the Lord of our God. For thus 
saith the Lord, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout 



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among the chief of the nations, (that is, Israel) publish 
ye, praise ye, and say, Lord, save thy people, the remnant 
of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north coun- 
try, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with 
them the blind and the lame, the woman with child, and 
her that travaileth with child together; a great company 
shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and 
with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to 
walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they 
shall not stumble ; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim 
is my first born. 

"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow 
the House of Israel, and the House of Judah with the seed 
of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to 
pass, that like as I have watched over them to pluck up, 
and to break down, and to destroy, and to afflict ; so will I 
watch over them to build and to plant, saith the Lord." 

The building and planting time of united Israel in Pal- 
estine has not yet come, but as sure as God's word is true, 
so sure will the Jews yet be united with the literal descend- 
ants of the ten tribes into one kingdom, and they will 
never be plucked up any more. It will be an everlasting 
Kingdom, and a world Kingdom, with Jesus, the Christ, 
for their King. Then will be fulfilled the following: 

"Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
a new covenant with the House of Israel, and with the 
House of Judah; not according to that I made with their 
fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them 
out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, 
although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. But 
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the House 
of Israel. After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my 



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law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts ; and 
I will be their God and they shall be my people. And they 
shall teach no more every man his neighbor, saying Know 
the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of 
them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; and I will 
forgive their iniquit}', and I will remember their sin no 
more." 

This covenant is repeated in Heb. 8 :8-12, in almost the 
same words. It was considered good in Paul's day, and it 
is good and certain yet. See how sure of the fulfillment, 
and how enduring the Kingdom will be. This is God's 
oath, as he swears by the sun and moon, and by the starry 
heavens, and by the expansive and roaring seas that he 
will perform all these things for Israel and Judah. "Thus 
saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, 
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light 
by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof 
roar; the Lord of Hosts is his name, if those ordinances 
depart from before me saith the Lord, then the seed of 
Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for- 
ever." 

"Thus saith the Lord, if heaven above can be measured, 
and the foundations of the earth be searched out beneath, 
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all they have 
done, saith the Lord." 

EZEKIEL. 

Ezek. 28:21r26, "And there shall be no more a prick- 
ing brier to the House of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of 
all that are round about them, that despised them and they 
shall know that I am the Lord God. For thus saith the 
Lord, when I shall have gathered the House of Israel from 



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the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be 
sanctified in them in sight of the heathen, then shall they 
dwell in the land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, 
and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, 
when I have executed judgment upon all those that de- 
spised them round about them; and they shall know that 
I am the Lord their God." 

Ezek. 3 J/.: Selections, "Thus saith the Lord God unto 
the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do 
feed themselves! should not the shepherd feed the flocks? 
Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with wool; ye kill them 
that are fed ; but ye feed not the flock. Behold, I am against 
the shepherds (the preachers) ; and I will require my flock 
at their hand, and cause them to cease feeding the flock; 
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for 
I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not 
be meat for them. Therefore will I save my flock, and they 
shall no more be a prey: and I will judge between cattle 
and cattle. x\nd I will set up one Shepherd (Christ) 
over them, and he shall feed them, even my serv- 
ant David (Christ) ; and he shall feed them and he shall 
be their Shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and 
my servant David a Prince among them; I the Lord have 
spoken it. 

"And I will make a covenant of peace, and will cause 
the evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall 
dwell safely in the wilderness, and lie down and sleep in 
the woods. And I will make them and the places round 
about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to 
come down in its season ; there shall be showers of blessing. 
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth 



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shall yield her increase , and they shall be safe in their 
land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have 
broken the bands of their yoke, and deliver them out of 
the hand of those that served themselves of them. And the\ 
shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the 
beasts of the land devour them ; but they shall dwell safely, 
and none shall make them afraid. And I will raise up 
for them a Plant of Eenown, and they shall no more be 
consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame 
of the heathen any more. Thus shall they know that I the 
Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the 
House of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord." 

Ezek. 36:8-12, "Oh ye mountains of Israel, ye shall 
shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my peo- 
ple Israel: for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I 
am for you, and I will turn you, and ye shall be tilled and 
sown : and I will multiply men upon you, all the House of 
Israel, even all of it ; and the cities shall be inhabited, and 
the wastes shall be builded. And I will multiply upon you 
man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit; 
and I will settle you after your own estates, and will do bet- 
ter unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord. Yea, I will cause men to walk upon 
you, even my people Israel ; and they shall possess thee and 
thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more be- 
reave man of them." 

Ezek. 37:21-21*, "Behold, I will take the children of 
Israel from among the heathen whither they have gone, and 
I will gather them on every side, and bring them into their 
own lands. And I will make them one nation upon the 
mountains of Israel; and one King (the Christ) shall be 
the King to them all: and they shall no more be two na- 



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tions, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any 
more at all. And David my servant (the Christ) shall be 
King over them : and they shall have one Shepherd, and my 
servant David shall be their Prince forever." 

Although Palestine is in the hands of the Turks, there 
is a good, legal, and more ancient title than theirs, which 
will be claimed in the not distant future: for God has so 
declared his purpose. Not long before the fall of Jerusa- 
lem and the Babylonian captivity, Jeremiah bought a 
field of his cousin, and subscribed the evidence in the pres- 
ence of witnesses. He then delivered the deeds to Baruch 
his scribe, who put them into an earthen vessel to be kept 
for many days ; for thus saith the Lord, "Houses and fields 
and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land." Jer. 
32 :43, 44, "And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof 
ye say, It is desolate without man and beast. Men shall 
buy fields for money, and subscribe the evidences, and seal 
them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in 
the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and 
in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, 
and in the cities of the south ; for I will cause their captiv- 
ity to return, saith the Lord." 

Daniel. 
Dan. 1:27, "And the Kingdom and dominion, and 
the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole heaven, 
shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all do- 
minions shall serve and obey him." 

Hosea. 
Hos. 3:5 y "Afterwards shall the children of Israel re- 
turn and seek the Lord their God, and David their King; 



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and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter 
days." 

Joel. 

Joel 3:1, 2, 6-8, 19-21, "For, behold, in those days, 
and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of 
Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and 
will bring them down into the valley of Jehosaphat, and 
will plead with them there for my people, and for my her- 
itage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, 
and parted my land. The children of Judah and the chil- 
dren of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye 
might remove them far away from their border. Behold, 
I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, 
and I will return your recompense upon your own head. 
And I will sell your own sons and daughters into the hands 
of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the 
Sabines, to a people far off, for the Lord hath spoken it. 

"And it shall come to pass in that day that the moun- 
tains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow 
with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with 
waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the 
Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. But Judah 
shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to gen- 
eration. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not 
cleansed; for the Lord dwelleth in Zion." 

The revolt of the ten tribes made a breach in the king- 
dom of David, but it did not destroy it. This breach is yet 
to be healed by the union of the Jews and the ten tribes. 
This is a part of the restoration, when they shall begin to 
assemble themselves in the land of their fathers. Hear the 
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Amos. 
Amos. 9:11:15, "In that day will I raise up the tab- 
ernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches 
thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it 
as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant 
of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my 
name, saith the Lord that doeth this. And I will bring 
the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the 
waste cities, and inhabit them and they shall plant vine- 
yards, and drink the wine thereof ; and they shall also make 
gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them 
upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled out of their 
land which I have given them, saith the Lord God. Behold, 
the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall over- 
take the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sow- 
eth seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all 
the hills shall melt. 

Obadiah. 

Obad. 17, "But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance 
and there shall be holiness ! and the House of Jacob shall 
possess their possessions." 

Micah. 

Mic. .4:1, 2, 6, 7, "But in the last days it shall come to 
pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be 
established in the top of the mountains and it shall be ex- 
alted above the hills ; and the people shall flow into it. In 
that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halted 
(Israel), and I will gather her that is driven out (Judah), 
and her that is afflicted (Israel) ; and I will make her that 
halted (Israel) a remnant, and her that was cast off 



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(Judah) a strong nation: and the Lord (Jesus) shall reign 
over them in Mount Zion from henceforth, even forever." 

Nahum. 

Nahum 2:3-5 (Leeser), "For the Lord bringeth back 
again the excellency of Jacob, and also the excellency of Is- 
rael; for the plunderers have plundered them; and have 
wasted the branches of their vines." 

Here the prophet looked down through the dim vista 
of the ages and saw the headlights of the mighty steam en- 
gines, and the street cars, and the automobiles jostling and 
raging through the streets of the cities in the day of Christ's 
preparation. Listen : "The shields of his mighty men are 
made red, and the valiant men are clothed in scarlet; with 
the fire of steel the chariots glitter on the day when he pre- 
pareth himself for battle, and the spears are shaken. In 
the streets the chariots rush madly along, they rattle 
through the public places ; their appearance is like torches, 
they run like the lightning." 

Zephaniah. 

Zeph. 3:9, 10, 15, 20 (Leeser), "Yea, then will I 
change unto the people a pure language, that they may call 
upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one accord. 
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia shall they bring my 
suppliants, even the assembly of my dispersed, as an offer- 
ing unto me. The Lord hath removed thy punishment, he 
hath cleared away thine enemy; the King of Israel, even 
the Lord (Jesus) is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not 
see evil any more. At that time will I bring you back, even 
in the time that I gather you: for I will make you for a 
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I bring back your captivity before your eyes, saith the 
Lord." 

Zechariah. 

Zech. 8:7, 18, "Behold, I will save my people from the 
•east country and from the west country; and I will bring 
them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem : and 
they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth 
and righteousness. And it shall come to pass, that as you 
were a curse among the heathen, House of Judah and 
House of Israel ; so will I save you, and you shall be a bless- 
ing : fear not, but let your hands be strong." 

Malachi. 

Mai. Sil-k (Leeser), "And the messenger of the cove- 
nant whom ye desire for, behold, he is coming, but who 
can sustain the day of his coming? and who can stand 
when he appeareth? for he is like the fire of the smelter, 
and like the lye of the washers : and he will sit as a melter 
and purifier of silver; and he will purify the sons of Levi, 
and refine them as gold and silver, that they may offer 
unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. And then shall 
be pleasant unto the Lord the offerings of Judah and 
Jerusalem, as in the days of old, and as in former years." 

From this passage of Malachi, and the last eight chap- 
ters of Ezekiel it is plain that the temple will be rebuilt 
and the blood sacrifice restored. Daniel also says that the 
Antichrist will cause the daily sacrifice to cease and that he 
will claim the Divine prerogatives standing in the holy 
place. Jesus also bears testimony to the same fact when he 
says that "the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Dan- 
iel the prophet, standing in the holy place" is a sign of the 



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end. Of course the holy place must be restored and the 
sacrifices also or this prophecy cannot be fulfilled. 

Zachaeias. 

Luke 1:67-75, "Zacharias was filled with the Holy 
Ghost and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of 
Israel; for he hath redeemed his people, and hath raised 
up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant 
David: as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, 
which have been since the world began; that we should be 
saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all them that 
hate us ; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and 
to remember his holy covenant ; the oath which he sware to 
our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we 
being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might 
serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness be- 
fore him, all the days of our life." 

Peter. 

Acts. 3:19, 21, "Kepent ye, therefore, and be converted 
that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of re- 
freshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; and he 
shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto 
you; whom the heaven must receive until the times of the 
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the 
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." 

James. 

Acts. 15:16, 17, "After this I will return, and will 
build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; 
and I will build up again the ruins thereof, and I will set it 
up, that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and 



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all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the 
Lord of Hosts, who doeth all these things." 

Paul. 

Rom. 11 :1, 2, 25-29, "Hath God cast away his people? 
God forbid. God hath not cast away his people which he 
foreknew. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be 
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own 
conceits ; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until 
the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel 
shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of 
Zion the Deliverer, and he shall turn away ungodliness 
from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I 
shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they 
are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, 
they are beloved for the father's sake. For the gifts and 
calling of God are without repentance." 

If this means anything, it means that the restoration, 
or redemption of Israel is unconditional, and absolutely 
certain. It matters little what the preachers have said, 
God hath spoken it. 

We have now given the testimony of sixteen prophets, 
and three apostles as to the restoration that is to take place 
in the last days : and all of these agree perfectly that the res- 
toration is the regathering of Israel. If there is any other 
restoration spoken of by the prophets, we have been unable 
to find it after a very careful search to that end. We have 
often heard it asserted by religious teachers that we are to 
be restored back to Eden, but this seems to be merely a fan- 
ciful sentiment, which has no warrant in the word of God. 
The old world business was all settled up at the flood, and 
if there is any reference in the Scriptures intimating that 



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any of its fallen things are to be restored, we have been un- 
able to find it. The fact is, the paradise of Israel, Jerusa- 
lem, will be better than the Paradise of Adam. Indeed, 
where is the covenant to Adam that God would restore 
Eden? Or where is the promise to Enoch, or to Methuselah 
or even to Noah that he would restore anything? And 
where in the Old or New Testaments is there any promise 
that the church shall be restored ? On the contrary we are 
told that it will be just the opposite — "a great falling away" 
of the Church before the coming of the Lord. We should 
beware of those teachers who are wise above that which is 
written. "To the law and to the testimony ; if they speak 
not according to this word, it is because there is no light 
in them/' 

To what extent then will the restoration have been ac- 
complished before the Lord comes ? This is partly answered 
in Ezek. 38:8-12 (Lesser), "After many days thou shalt 
be ordered forward (that is Gog, the prince of Eussia) ; in 
the end of the years thou shalt come into the land that is 
recovering from the sword, and is gathered together out of 
many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have 
been ruined for a long time : to a people that are brought 
forth out of the nations, and that now dwell in safety, all 
of them. 

"Thou shalt ascend and come like a tempest, like a 
cloud to cover the earth wilt thou be, thou, and all thy 
armies, and the many people with thee. Thus hath said the 
Lord eternal, It will come to pass at the same time, that 
things will come into thy mind, and thou wilt entertain 
an evil device ; and thou wilt say, I will go up over the land 
of open towns ; I will come against those that are careless, 
that dwell in safety, all of whom dwell without walls, and 



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have neither bars nor gates, to snatch wp the spoil, and to 
take away the prey ; to turn thine hand against the ruined 
places now inhabited, and against the people that are gath- 
ered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, 
that dwell in the highest parts of the land." 

This regathered Israel out of all the nations, will be 
living in peace and prosperity with much cattle and goods, 
and in their open towns, and unwalled villages. It is their 
riches, and their prosperity that attracts the attention and 
excites the cupidity of Gog and his allied forces. 

The gospel of the Kingdom in distinction from the gos- 
pel of the church, will have been preached among all of the 
nations, and Israel will have heeded it to the extent of the 
above results. The temple and the sacrifices will have been 
restored, and the sons of Levi will have been purified, so 
as to bring an offering in righteousness at Jerusalem, which 
God has accepted and blessed. As proof of this see Ezek. 
43:13-27. Her judges will have been restored as at first, 
and none shall be able to terrify them or make them afraid. 
The tabernacle, the ark of covenant, and the altar of in- 
cense will have been found, and the Shekinah glory will 
have reappeared ; for it was said that the hiding place of the 
ark and tabernacle should be "unknown until the time that 
God gathered his people together again, and receive them 
unto mercy. Then shall the Lord show them these things, 
and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, 
as it was showed unto Moses, and when Solomon desired 
that the place might be honorably sanctified." 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Jerusalem Will Be the Throne of the Lord Jesus, 
the Christ. 



Today, Jerusalem is a filthy, oriental city, with narrow 
streets and lanes, and with little beauty of architecture or 
landscape. It is filled with strangers, the Turks, the de- 
filed and the unclean are there. But it will undergo some 
wonderful transformations about the time of the inaugura- 
tion of Christ's Kingdom, and then it will be beautified 
beyond description. 

There will be the greatest earthquake that the world has 
ever felt, which will divide the city into three parts, and the 
Mount of Olives will be split middle in two, from the east 
to the west — half of the mountain will move towards the 
north, and half towards the south, making a great canal 
from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. But it will not 
be a water level canal ; for in the upheavals there will be a 
tremendous gushing fountain, which will issue out of the 
earth at the eastern threshold of the house which will be 
the throne of the King. 

Upon every high mountain, and upon every prominent 
hill, rivulets and streams of water will gush forth as a 
result of the geological changes that will take place at the 
time of the great earthquake. Jerusalem will be a place of 
rivers and streams of ample breadth. Half of these waters 
will flow eastward into the Dead Sea, and heal the waters 
thereof, so that there will be multitudes of fishes in it ; and 

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every thing will be teeming with life whithersoever these 
waters go. The other half will flow westward into the Med- 
itteranean. 

The great artesian fountain flowing from beneath 
the palace of the King, together with many other gushing 
fountains on the eastern slope of the city, at a distance of 
4,000 cubits, or a little over a mile and a half, form a river 
so as to be unfordable — a tremendous flowing stream. 

This eastern stream is the River of Life that flows out 
of the throne of God and of the Lamb. On its banks are the 
trees of life, yielding their fruits every month, which is 
for food, and the leaves of the trees are for the healing of 
the nations. 

Jerusalem will be the best watered city that the world 
has ever seen. The earthquake will be so great that the 
earth will reel to and fro like a drunken man, and the tenth 
part of the city will be thrown down, and 7,000 men will 
be killed thereby. Doubtless the most of the city will be 
demolished; for the new city will be builded on the heaps 
of the ruins of the old. This earthquake will, probably, 
be world-wide in its work ; for we are told that the cities of 
the nations will fall from the shaking thereof. This occurs 
at the time of the battle of Armageddon. 

The Earthquake. 

Zech. 1^:3-9, "Then shall the Lord (Jesus) go forth, 
and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the 
day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day on the 
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, 
and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, 
toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a 
very great valley; and half of the mountain shall move 



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toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye 
shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of 
the mountains shall reach unto Azal. Yea, ye shall flee 
like as ye fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, 
king of Judah; and the Lord (Jesus) shall come, and all 
the saints with him. And the Lord (Jesus) shall be King 
over all the earth ; in that day there shall be one Lord and 
his name one. And it shall be in that day, that living 
waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward 
the eastern sea (the Dead Sea), and half of them toward 
the western sea (the Mediterranean), in summer and in 
winter shall it be." 

Rev. 11:13, "And the same hour there was a great 
earthquake, and the tenth part of the city (Jerusalem) 
fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men 7,000; and 
the remainder were affrighted and gave glory to God." 

Rev. 16:18, 19, "And there were voices, and thunder- 
ings, and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such 
as there was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty 
an earthquake, and so great. And the great city (of 
Jerusalem) was divided into three parts, and the cities of 
the nations fell." 

Isa. 21/.: 18-20, "The foundations of the earth do shake, 
the earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dis- 
solved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall 
reel to and fro like a drunkard, and it shall be moved like 
a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy 
upon it ; and it shall fall, and not rise again." 

Joel 3:16, 18, "A fountain shall come forth out of the 
house of the Lord (Jesus), and shall water the valley of 
Shittim." 

Hag. 2:6, 7, 21, 22, "For thus saith the Lord of 



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Hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the 
heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations 
shall come : and I will fill this house with glory, saith the 
Lord of hosts. Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, 
saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will 
overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the 
strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will over- 
throw the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the 
horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the 
sword of his brother." 

Ezek. 38:19, 20, "Surely in that day shall there be a 
great shaking in the land of Israel; so that the fishes of 
the sea and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the 
field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, 
and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall 
quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown 
down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall 
fall to the ground." 

The River of Life. 

Ezek. J/.7 :1-13 (Leeser), "Afterwards he brought me to 
the door of the house, and behold, waters issued out of the 
threshold of the house eastward; for the forefront of the 
house stood toward the east, and the waters came down 
from under the right side of the house, at the south side of 
the altar. Then he brought me out by the way of the 
gate northward, and led me about the way without unto 
the utter gate, by the way that looketh eastward; and, 
behold there ran out waters on the right side. 

"When the man that had the line in his hand went 
forth eastward he measured a thousand cubits, and he 



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brought me through the waters ; and the waters were to the 
ankles. Again he measured a thousand cubits; and he 
brought me through the waters, the waters were to the 
knees. Again he measured a thousand cubits, and brought 
me through; the waters were to the loins. Afterwards he 
measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not 
pass over, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a 
river that could not be passed over. And he said unto 
me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought 
me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 
Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river 
were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 
Then saith he unto me, These waters issue out toward 
the east country, and go into the desert, and go into the 
(Dead) Sea; which being brought forth into the sea the 
water shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that 
everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the 
waters shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very 
great multitude of fishes, because the waters shall come 
thither; for they shall be healed, and everything shall live 
whither the river cometh. 

"And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand 
by it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; there shall be 
places for the spreading forth of nets; their fish shall be 
according to their kind, as the fish of the great sea, ex- 
ceeding many. But its swamps and its lagoons shall not 
be healed; for they shall be given to the making of salt. 
And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side and 
on that, shall grow up all kinds of trees, the fruit of which 
shall not come to an end; every month shall they bring 
forth new ripe fruit ; because its water is that which issueth 



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forth out of the sanctuary ; and their fruits shall serve for 
food, and their leaves for remedies." 

Rev. 22 :l-3, "And he showed me a pure river of water 
of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of 
God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, 
and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, 
which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit 
every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing 
of the nations. And there shall be no more curse; but the 
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his 
servants shall serve him." 

Just think of the foolishness and absurdity of spiritual- 
izing this stream to mean the Holy Spirit, just because 
the Savior used a figurative expression to the woman of 
Samaria! There is no trouble either for any one to 
understand the figurative expression that the Savior used. 
Away with such interpretations! They obscure the truth 
and mislead the disciple. 

Isa. 30:19-21, 25 (Leeser), "Oh people of Zion that 
dwell at Jerusalem, thou shalt indeed not weep ; he will be 
surely gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; so soon as 
he heareth it, he answereth thee. And the Lord will give 
you bread in adversit}^, and water in oppression; and thy 
teachers shall not have to hide themselves in a corner any 
more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers, and thy ears 
shall hear the word behind thee, saying, This is the way, 
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye 
turn to the left. And there shall be upon every high 
mountain, and upon every prominent hill, rivulets, streams 
of water in the day of the great slaughter, when towers 
fall." 

From these statements of the upheavals of the earth- 



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quake, and bursting forth of these great artesian fountains, 
and the destruction of the city itself, it is evident that the 
temple and city that is rebuilt before the coming of the 
Lord, will be largely wasted and destroyed; for these up- 
heavals and geological changes will demolish the city, and 
change its topography to such an extent, that the real new 
Jerusalem will be built on the ruins of such an effort. 

Solomon's kingdom, and the beauty and wealth of 
Jerusalem, and especially the costliness and glory of the 
temple, were the prefigurements of the Kingdom of Christ 
and the new Jerusalem, and the temple that will be built 
by the Son of God for his own glory. 

Zecli. 6:12, 13, "Behold the man whose name is the 
Branch (Christ), and he shall grow up out of his place, 
and HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE 
LOKD; EVEN HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE 
OF THE LOED, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit 
and rule upon his throne." 

That we may have some basis upon which to reckon, 
in our imagination, of the magnificence of the future city, 
let us look at some of the expenditures that were made by 
Solomon on the old city, during the 20 years he spent in 
building the various structures which he erected. 

David laid by, of his own personal estate, for the house 
of the Lord, $90,337,500. He also asked the chiefs of the 
nation for a free will offering for the same purpose, and 
they gave willingly $147,880,200. Solomon's yearly in- 
come of gold and silver was $17,502,480. This multiplied 
by 20, for the twenty years that he was occupied in build- 
ing, gives us $350,049,600. Then the queen of Sheba 
gave him as a present $3,153,600. Hyram, king of Tyre, 
sent ships to Ophir and brought him $11,826,000. All of 



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this was in gold and silver. Putting them all together we 
have $603,246,900. This had about ten times the pur- 
chasing value of our money at the present time. So that 
Solomon must have spent in those twenty years in building 
up Jerusalem at least $6,032,469,000, or in round numbers 
more than $6,000,000,000. 

He gave to Hyram, king of Tyre, for preparing timber 
and hewing stones in the mountains of Lebanon, a yearly 
wage of 160,000 bushels of wheat, and 1,500 gallons of oil. 

This is only a faint type, or prefigurement, of the new 
Jerusalem, which will be the CAPITAL of the world 
under the King of kings. 

We are told that "the abundance of the sea shall be 
brought into it." If Elisha could cause an axe head to 
swim that had fallen into the river, it need not be thought 
a wonderful thing if the Christ is able to raise all the 
buried treasures that lie in the bottom of the sea, and 
which have been accumulating there through the ages, 
and bring them into Jerusalem, to make the place of his 
throne glorious. 

"Her gates shall be open continually, that men may 
bring in the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings 
may be brought." "The gold and the silver is mine, and 
the cattle upon a thousand hills." Where is all the wealth 
of ancient Babylon? Where is the gold and silver of 
Croesus? The treasures of Greece and Eome? Where, 
indeed, is all the output of all the mines of the world 
from Adam to the present time ? It could not be destroyed. 
It still exists, and awaits its time to be used for the glory 
of its Maker, and for the honor of the King in Jerusalem. 

"For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring 
silver, and for stones iron." "The glory of Lebanon shall 



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come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box 
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will 
make the place of my feet glorious/' "Put on thy beauti- 
ful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth 
there shall no more come unto thee the uncircumcised and 
the unclean." "Break forth into joy, sing together, ye 
waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted 
his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem." 

Jer. 8:17, 18, "At that time they shall call Jerusalem 
the Throne of the Lord (Jesus) ; and all the nations shall 
be gathered into it, to the name of the Lord (Jesus), to 
Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the 
imagination of their evil heart. In those days shall the 
House of Judah walk with the House of Israel, and they 
shall come together out of the land of the north, to the 
land that I have given for an inheritance unto your 
fathers/' 

Zech. 2:10-12, "Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion ; 
for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith 
the Lord. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord 
in that day, and shall be my people; and / will dwell in 
the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of 
hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord (Jesus) shall 
inherit Judah in the Holy Land, and shall choose Jeru- 
salem again." Zech. 8:3, "Thus saith the Lord (Jesus), 
I am returned unto Zion, and I will dwell in the midst 
of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be a city of truth ; and 
the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain." 

Psa. Jf8:2, "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the 
whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the 
city of the great King." Ezek. 47 :4-7, "And the glory 
of the Lord (Jesus) came into the house by the way of 



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the gate which was turned in an eastern direction. Then 
did the Spirit take me up, and bring me into the inner 
court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. 
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house ; and 
a man was standing alongside of me. And he said unto 
me, Son of man, This is the place of my Throne, and the 
place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the 
midst of the children of Israel forever." 

Isa. 2:2, 3, "And it shall come to pass in the last 
days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be estab- 
lished in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted 
above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it. And 
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up 
unto the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God 
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will 
walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, 
and the word of the Lord (Jesus) from Jerusalem." 

Isa. 51:3, "For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will 
comfort all your waste places; and he will make her wil- 
derness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the 
Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanks- 
giving, and the voice of melody." 

Isa. 60:1b, "And they shall call thee the city of the 
Lord (Jesus), the Zion of the holy one of Israel." Isa. 
65:18, 19, "For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, 
and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no 
more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying." Joel 
3 :16, 17, "The Lord (Jesus) shall cry out of Zion, and 
utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the 
earth shall shake: but the Lord (Jesus) will be the hope 
of his people; and the strength of the children of Israel. 



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So shall ye know that I am the Lord your King, dwelling 
in Zion, my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be 
holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any 
more." Mic. 4:7, "And I will make her that halted 
(Judah) a remnant, and her that is cast off (Israel) a 
strong nation; and the Lord (Jesus) shall reign over them 
in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever." 

Now these passages are sufficient to establish beyond 
controversy, that Jerusalem, the Jerusalem in Palestine, 
will be the Throne of the Christ, during his Millennial 
reign. They also show that it will be the joy of the whole 
earth, and will be beautiful beyond description. With the 
river of life gushing out from beneath the Throne, and 
many other purling streams and gushing fountains, water- 
ing every part of the city, and the trees of life lining their 
banks, and yielding their fruit every month, and whose 
fruit is never exhausted, what a delightful place it will 
be ! We are warranted in saying that in everything it will 
far surpass Babylon, or Washington, or Paris, in the 
broad stretch of its boulevards, and the abundance of its 
crystal fountains, and the purity of the waters thereof, 
and the majesty of its buildings, and the costliness of its 
adornments. Babylon had its hanging gardens, and Paris 
its beautiful parks and boulevards, and all the great mod- 
ern cities their sky-scraping buildings, city halls and orna- 
mented pavilions, but they will all pale into insignificance 
in comparison with the city of the great King. The best 
that men have been able to do thus far is to build of marble 
and hewn stone, but listen to this description of the city 
yet to be: Isa, 54:11, 12, "0 thou afflicted, tossed by 
the tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones 
with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 



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And I will make thy battlements of rubies, and thy gates 
of carbuncles, and all thy borders (or pavements) of pre- 
cious stones/' 

Added to all this majesty of architecture, and the 
glistening beauty of its ornamental stones, and its sparkling 
fountains and purling streams, as a climax to the whole 
thing, and something which man cannot copy, this whole 
city will be made into one grand pavilion by an over- 
shadowing cloud, or tent-like covering, which will be as a 
protection from heat, and from storm, and from rain. At 
night it will glow as a naming fire, so that no city ever 
yet lighted by its millions of electric lights, can in any 
way be compared to the brilliancy and the effulgent glory 
of this. 

The city will need no light of the sun or of the moon; 
for the Lord (Jesus) will be the light of it. While they 
continue their wonted courses through the heavens this 
canopy, which covers the city, will completely exclude their 
light and heat from the inhabitants thereof. The radiance 
of the Savior's glorified body, a faint glimpse of which 
was seen on the Mount of Transfiguration, will be so 
brilliant that the sun will be ashamed, and the moon will 
be confounded at the sight. 

The prophet Isaiah in the 33d chapter, while contem- 
plating this fiery radiance, and flaming beauty of the 
Savior's glorified body, asks the question, "Who among 
us shall dwell with the devouring fire ? who among us shall 
dwell with everlasting burnings?" And he answers his 
question by saying, "He that walketh righteously, and 
speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppres- 
sion, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that 
stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his 



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eyes from seeing evil ; he shall dwell on high ; rocky strong- 
holds shall be his refuge; his bread shall be given him, 
his water shall be sure. His eyes shall see the King in his 
beauty; they shall behold the land of far distances." 

Isa. J>:2-6 (Leeser), "On that day shall the Sprout 
of the Lord be for ornament and for honor, and the fruit 
of the land for excellency and glory, for the escaped of 
Israel. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever is left 
in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be 
called holy, every one that is written down unto life in 
Jerusalem; when the Lord shall have washed away the 
filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured away 
the blood guiltiness of Jerusalem from her midst, by the 
spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction, then 
will the Lord create upon every dwelling of Mount Zion, 
and upon her places of assembly, a cloud of smoke by day, 
and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all 
the glory shall be a covering. And a tabernacle shall it be 
for a shade in the day from heat, and for a refuge, and 
for a covering from the tempest and from rain." Isa. 
24:23, "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun 
ashamed, when the Lord (Jesus) of hosts shall reign in 
Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients 
gloriously." Isa. 33:20, 24, "Look on Zion, the city 
of our assemblies; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem as an 
undisturbed residence, a tent that shall not be struck for 
removal; not one of the stakes of which shall be moved, 
and all the cords of which shall never be torn loose. But 
there will the Lord (Jesus) show himself mighty unto us, 
in a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein no galley 
with oars shall go, nor any gallant ship shall pass thereby. 
For the Lord (Jesus) is our guide, the Lord is our law- 






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giver, the Lord is our King; he will save us. And no in- 
habitant shall say, I am sick ; the people that dwell therein 
shall be one whose iniquity is forgiven." 

This is the earthly Jerusalem, the throne of the Christ, 
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. This is the city of 
the Great King, the capital of the world, the joy of the 
whole earth. This is Paradise, the Eden of God. But 
Jesus assured his disciples that in his Father's house there 
are many mansions, and that he was going away to pre- 
pare a place for them. He furthermore told them that 
when it was ready he would come again and receive them 
unto himself. Now this place is for the followers of 
Jesus, for the eccclesia, the bride, the rulers and the cour- 
tiers of the Kingdom, and not for the subjects. 

Hence, after John had seen and described in detail the 
tribulation and the advent of our Lord, and the redemption 
of Israel; as the last scene of the great panorama, the 
climax of the revelation of Jesus Christ, he saw and de- 
scribed (Rev. 21) the descent of the Heavenly Jerusalem 
which descends from God out of heaven and is suspended 
in the air just above the earth. It is 1,500 miles long, 
1,500 miles wide and 1,500 miles high, and is the habita- 
tion of the bride, those whose bodies have overcome gravi- 
tation and can ascend and descend as the body of Jesus did 
after his resurrection; and as Paul tells us the bodies of 
the saints will do when raised from the dead, or when 
changed in the twinkling of an eye. Isaiah seemed to 
have caught a glimpse of them entering into the Heavenly 
Jerusalem when he said (Isa. 60 :8), "Who are these that 
fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows ?" Every one 
of them will be labeled according to the following seal; 
viz, Rev. 3 :12, "Him that overcome th will I make a pillar 



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in the temple of my God, and lie shall go no more out; 
and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the 
name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, 
which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and I 
will write upon him my new name." This will he the 
abode of the overcomers. 

Here will also dwell the innumerable hosts of white 
robed palm bearers whom John saw (Eev. 7:9) gathered 
out of every nation, kindred, people, and tongue; so great 
a host that no man could number them. "Will there be 
room?" did you say? Let us see, 1,500 miles square; that 
is 7,920,000 feet. Deduct half of this for streets and we 
have 3,960,000 feet still on one side. This would allow 
264,000 fifteen foot rooms on one side of a single street 
on the ground floor of the city. The square of this is 
69,696,000,000 fifteen foot square rooms on the ground 
floor. Making each story fifteen feet high, there would 
be 528,000 stories, or, 36,799,488,000,000,000 fifteen foot 
cube rooms in the house of many mansions. 

The city is of pure gold. It has twelve foundations, 
each garnished with precious gems, the first jasper, the 
second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth an emer- 
ald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chryso- 
lite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chryso- 
prasus, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 

The twelve gates were twelve pearls ; each gate was one 
pearl, and the streets of the city were pure gold like trans- 
parent glass. Earth made pearls are about the size of a 
teardrop and are grown in the oyster or other mollusks, 
but the heaven made pearls are large enough for the gate 
of a city, each gate a single pearl. The streets of the city 
are of angel polished gold like transparent glass. This 



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must mean that it as far excels man wrought gold as a 
heavenly pearl excels an earth made pearl. 

There will be no temple in this city; for the Lord God 
Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. It has no 
need of the sun or the moon to shine in it; for the glory 
of God will lighten it, and the Lamb will be the light of 
it. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk 
in the light of it, and the kings of the earth who are 
glorified by Jesus Christ shall bring their glory and honor 
into it. Who are these kings of the earth? Mat. 19:28, 
"Ye that have followed me, in the regeneration, when the 
Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also 
shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel/' Luke 22:28-30, "Ye are they which have con- 
tinued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto 
you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me, 
that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, 
and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." 

There will be no night there, and the gates thereof will 
never be shut. No one will ever enter in but those whose 
names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Its in- 
habitants are the bride, the Lamb's wife, the rulers of the 
earth, and the courtiers of the Kingdom of the Lord 
Jesus. Hallelujah ! Praise the Lord for our inheritance. 
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things." Amen ! 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Church, the Bride of Christ, Will Be the 
Rulers in This Kingdom. 



Who shall dwell in the New Jerusalem and reign with 
Jesus, the Christ? The overcomers, the four and twenty 
elders. Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26, 28. "To him that over- 
cometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the 
midst of the paradise of God. (That is Jerusalem.) He 
that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. 
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone 
a new name written, which no man knoweth save he that 
receiveth it. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my 
words unto the end, to him will I give power over the 
nations ; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron ; as the 
vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers; even as 
I received of my Father. And I will give him the morn- 
ing star." Rev. 3:5, 12, 21, "He that overcometh will 
I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go 
no more out; and I will write upon him the name of my 
God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New 
Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my 
God; and I will write upon him my new name. To him 
that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my Throne, 
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father 
in his throne." 

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Rev. £1:7, "He that overcometh shall inherit ail 
things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." 

Who are the overcomers? Psa. 15, "Lord, who shall 
abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy Holy 
Hill (Jerusalem) ? He that walketh uprightly and work- 
eth righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. 
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to 
his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. 
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; but he honoreth 
them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own 
hurt, and changeth not; that putteth not out his money 
to usury (oppressive interest), nor taketh a reward against 
the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be 
moved." 

Isa. 88:14-17, "Who among us shall dwell with the 
devouring fire (the glorified body of Christ, in Jerusalem) ? 
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings (in 
the presence of all the glorified beings) ? He that walketh 
righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the 
gain of oppressions (oppressive interest, or extortion), 
that shaketh his hands from the holding of bribes, that 
stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his 
eyes from seeing evil; he shall dwell on high: his place 
of defence shall be in the munitions of rocks; bread shall 
be given him ; his waters shall be sure. His eyes shall see 
the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land of far 
distances." Such are the overcomers. 

Hence we see that it is not an impossible task to be an 
overcomer. It is just what every good citizen should be 
and do. These are the persons who constitute the body of 
Christ, and are called the Bride, the Church. 

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nor holding oyster suppers, nor bazaars, nor raffling quilts, 
nor gadding around at what is generally called church 
visiting, that makes a person a member of the body of 
Christ, or an overcomer, nor that furnishes a pass-port 
to the courts of glory. It is inward purity, and courage 
to stand for the right even to one's own hurt. 

Of the millions whose names swell the church rolls of 
today, doubtless comparatively few are overcomers. Sad 
for the rest ! 

Who are the inheritors of a kingdom? Not the sub- 
jects. It is the bride of the king, or his children. Jesus 
the Christ is God's son. All overcomers are likewise sons 
of God, and Jesus is their Elder Brother. They alone 
can inherit the kingdom. Luke 6:35, "Ye are the chil- 
dren of the Highest." I John 3 :2, "Beloved, now are 
we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we 
shall be : but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall 
be like him ; for we shall see him as he is." Of such is the 
Church, the Bride of Christ. Hence we see also that the 
doctrine that God is the Father of all men is shamefully 
false. Rom. 9 :8, "They which are the children of the 
flesh, these are not the children of God." God is not our 
Father by creation, else he is the Father of a mule. John 
1:12, "But as many as received him, to them gave he 
power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe 
on his name." 

The Church is less than the Kingdom. It is included 
in the Kingdom ; but it is far better to be in the Church, 
the Bride, than simply to be in the Kingdom. The per- 
sons who constitute the Church, the real body of Christ, 
will be the rulers in the Kingdom. They are the cabinet 
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of a king stands much higher than a mere subject of his 
realm. She shares all the honors of the king, and is in all 
his secret councils. She is one with him in all things. 
He is the head, and she loves to honor him because he is. 
But she cannot be his kingdom. Herein is the absurdity 
of nearly all pulpit teaching. They have ignored Israel, 
which is the real Kingdom, and have taught that the Bride 
of Christ is his Kingdom. 

From the call of Abraham to John the Baptist God 
was developing the Kingdom. The gospel dispensation 
has been the calling forth of the Bride, the selection of the 
cabinet of the Kingdom. Doubtless many nominal mem- 
bers of the Church will only be subjects of the Kingdom, 
they will constitute no part of the Bride; for it is only 
to the overcomers that the promise of rulership is given. 
Unlike the Kingdom, the Church is called out from every 
kindred, and nation, and people, and tongue. This is 
God's plan for bringing all nations, finally, under his 
dominion. 

There seem to be two classes who constitute the whole 
Church, or Body of Christ — the Bride, and the attendants 
of the Bride. The Bride are the overcomers, and are 
crowned as the rulers. They are the wise virgins. The 
attendants of the Bride are the foolish virgins, who are 
not overcomers to the extent of receiving crowns, many 
of whom will have to pass through the tribulation and be 
slain. There is an assurance that the wise virgins will 
escape the severity of the tribulation. In speaking of the 
trials and woes that are to try men's hearts in the last 
days, Luke says, "Pray ye, therefore, that ye may be 
accounted worthy to escape all these things and to stand 
before the Son of man." 



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At every marriage there are the bride, and the groom 
and the attendants. When John looked through the door 
of heaven he saw the four and twenty elders seated on 
thrones, and clothed in white raiment, with a crown of 
gold upon each of their heads. These are the overcomers. 
This is the ruling class, the wise virgins. Twelve was the 
number of government, as is seen in the twelve tribes, 
and in the apostolic college. Here then we have a multiple 
of twelve, which shows that they are a representative class. 
They are the Bride. They escaped the tribulation, and 
had received their crowns, and were already seated upon 
their thrones. 

Now let us look at the foolish virgin class. They are 
Christians but not overcomers. Eev. 6 :9-ll, "And when 
he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the 
souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for 
the testimony which they (the martyrs) held; and they 
cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, holy 
and true, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that 
dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto 
every one of them, and it was said unto them that they 
should rest for a little season, until their fellow servants, 
and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, 
should be fulfilled." 

Then after the sealing of the 144,000 of the literal 
twelve tribes of Israel, which is the kingdom class, we see 
these foolish virgins come up before the throne, as a kind 
of second fruits of the first resurrection, clothed in white 
robes, and with palms in their hands. This class is very 
numerous — for it is said of them (Eev. 7:9-15), "After 
this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man 
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and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, 
clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands. And 
they cried with a loud voice saying, Salvation to our God 
which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. And 
one of the elders answered, saying unto me, Who are these 
who are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to 
me, These are they who came out of the great tribulation, 
and have washed their robes, and made them white in the 
blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne 
of God, and serve him day and night in his temple — and 
he that sitteth upon the throne shall dwell among them." 

These are the attendants of the bridegroom; they are 
the courtiers of the kingdom. They are arrayed in white 
robes, and receive their palms of victory, but they are 
never crowned. They are a part of the Church; for they 
are gathered from all nations, kindreds, peoples, and 
tongues. 

The 144,000 which are sealed of the twelve tribes of 
Israel are servants and not sons, and they are the repre- 
sentatives, or nucleus, of the Kingdom; for they never 
leave the earth as the church class does. During the 
tribulation, we see in Rev. 9 :4, that they are not hurt of 
the plagues that are cursing the earth, because they were 
sealed for that very purpose. When Jesus comes from 
heaven and all his saints with him, he finds these 144,000 
on Mount Zion awaiting him. 

Another striking difference between the Church, and 
the Kingdom is, that when the Church is translated at the 
time of the rapture, or the first resurrection, they become 
immortal, but the subjects of the Kingdom are still in their 
mortality. This is shown by the following texts. Isa. 



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65 : 17-23, "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new- 
earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come 
into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that 
which I create ; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and 
joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no more 
be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no 
more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath 
not filled his days ; for the child shall die an hundred years 
old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be 
accursed." 

Here it is declared that in the new earth, the child 
shall die an hundred years old. Immortals cannot die, 
hence these subjects of the Kingdom are still in their mor- 
tality. But when the Devil is chained, all aggressive evil 
ceases, and sickness will be done away with. Children 
will not die in infancy as now, but will live out their 
allotted days, namely, not less than a hundred years. They 
will come forth in the second resurrection at the end of the 
thousand years. 

"And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and 
they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They 
shall not build, and another inhabit, they shall not plant, 
and another eat ; for as the days of a tree, are the days of 
my people, and mine elect (Israel) shall long enjoy the 
work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor 
bring forth for trouble ; for they are the seed of the blessed 
of the Lord, and their offspring with them." 

Here it is shown that the propagation of the human 
race will continue among the mortals, that is, in the King- 
dom, as now. But it is asserted of the Church, or the 
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that (Matt. 22:30), "In the resurrection, they neither 
marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of 
God in heaven." Again it is asserted by Luke 20:36, 
"But they that are accounted worthy to obtain that world, 
and the resurrection from among the dead, neither marry, 
nor are given in marriage, neither can they die any more; 
for they are equal unto the angels, and are the children of 
God, being the childen of the resurrection." They are 
therefore immortal. 

That the subjects of the Kingdom will be mortal is 
shown again by Eev. 20:7-9, "And when the thousand 
years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 
and shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four 
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them to- 
gether to battle; the number of whom is as the sands of 
the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, 
and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the be- 
loved city; and fire came down from heaven and devoured 
them." So the multitudes of people who are scattered 
about over the earth even at the close of the thousand years 
are still mortal. 

Immortality was never promised to the Old Testament 
saints. It is only once mentioned in the Old Testament, 
and that is in Daniel's prophecy of the first resurrection. 
They are always promised national glory, and material 
prosperity of crops and herds. Life and immortality were 
brought to light through the gospel. 

Let us now look at the regal character of the Bride. 
Matt. 19:28, "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say 
unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regen- 
eration, when the Son of man shall sit on the Throne of 



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his glory; ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging 
the twelve tribes of Israel." 

Two facts are emphatic: first that these twelve are to 
be kingly rulers, and second, that the twelve tribes of Israel 
is the Kingdom. 

Dan. 7:13, Ik, 18, 22, 27, "And I saw in the night 
visions, and behold, one like the Son of man, came with 
the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, 
and they brought him near before him. And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and a Kingdom, that 
all people, nations, and language, should serve him; his 
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass, 
away, and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. 
But the saints of the Most High shall take the Kingdom, 
and possess the Kingdom forever and ever. Until the 
Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the 
saints of the Most High ; and the time came that the saints 
possessed the Kingdom. And the Kingdom and dominion, 
and the greatness of the Kingdom of the whole heaven, 
shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and dominions 
shall serve and obey him." 

Here is the nobleman of the parable of Luke 19 :12, 
receiving his Kingdom. He is our Elder Brother, Jesus, 
the Christ. We are next in line as inheritors. It is only 
those of the royal house and blood who can inherit a king- 
dom. The subjects of a kingdom are not heirs of the 
kingdom, but only those of kin to the king and queen. 

The Church is thus exalted far above the Kingdom. 
Glorious inheritance, this of ours ! Matt. 5 :5, "The meek 
shall inherit the earth." Luke 12:31, "But rather seek 
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These belong to the royal line, or they would not be 
told to seek the Kingdom. If they get what they seek, 
would they not be kings ? Otherwise the injunction would 
be, Seek to get into the Kingdom. "Fear not little flock; 
for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the King- 
dom." He does not urge them to get into the Kingdom, 
but he says he will give them the Kingdom. 

Matt. 5:3, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs 
is the Kingdom of heaven." "Blessed are they that are 
persecuted for righteousness' sake; for theirs is the King- 
dom of heaven." 

Psa. 11+9:5-9, "Let the saints be joyful in glory; let 
them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of 
God be in their mouth, a twoedged sword in their hand ; to 
execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments 
upon the people ; to bind their kings with chains ; and their 
nobles with fetters of iron ; to execute upon men the judg- 
ment written. This honor have all the saints." I Chr. 
6 :2, 3, "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the 
world? Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" 

All of these passages show that the saints are the execu- 
tors of the Kingdom of Christ, and not the subjects. 
Rev. 5 :9-10, Here we see the translated Church singing, 
"Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals 
thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God 
by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, 
and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and 
priests and we shall reign on the earth." Rev. 1:5, 6, 
"Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in 
his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto 
God and his Father." 

Rev. 20:^-6, "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon 



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them, and judgment was given unto them; I saw 
the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of 
Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not wor- 
shipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received 
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they 
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the 
rest or the dead lived not again until the thousand years 
were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and 
holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection : on such 
the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests 
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand 
years." Eev. 22:5, "And there shall be no night there; 
and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the 
Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign forever 
and ever." 

Luke 22:29, 30, "I appoint unto you a kingdom, as 
my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and 
drink at my table, in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones 
judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Eev. 2 :26, 27, "And 
he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end, to 
him will I give power over the nations; and he shall rule 
them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall 
they be broken to shivers." Eev. 3:21, "To him that 
overcometh will I give to sit with me in my Throne, even 
as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father ir 
his throne." 

I Peter 5:Jf, "And when the chief Shepherd shall ap- 
pear ye shall receive a crown that fadeth not away." 

We think these passages are an overwhelming proof 
that the Bride of Christ is not his Kingdom, but the 
executive officers of his Kingdom. Jesus said that in the 
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established, but here we have just overwhelmed the court, 
so to speak, with witnesses, that there might be left no 
room whatever for doubt, or controversy, over the question. 
Jesus is head over the Church, as the husband is the head 
over the wife. 

Our relation to Christ now is that of one betrothed to 
a husband, a king's son. Her greatest pleasure is to keep 
herself pure and spotless for the marriage day. She is not 
ashamed of her betrothal, but publishes it, that all may 
know that she has been chosen, and accounted worthy of 
the king's son, and that she is no more open and free to 
be wooed by another. She delights to do him honor, and 
to fit herself by every attraction of education and accom- 
plishment and usefulness till he comes to take her unto 
himself. Every interest centers in the marriage day. To 
that she looks with interest and anxious longing, that 
everything may be in perfect readiness, and that the robes 
and decorations and ornaments shall all be perfect in 
beauty. 

But our relation is even nearer to him than this; for 
such a betrothal has presumed the original purity of the 
bride, but Christ the King's son, has chosen us as harlots 
from the slums of sin, and has cleansed our robes and our 
bodies, and has educated us, and trained us, and fitted us 
for himself, that he might present us to himself without 
spot or wrinkle, or any imperfection, a glorious Bride. 
How humiliating the thought! and yet, how exalting! 
How careful we ought to be in all holy living and godli- 
ness ! How happy we should be each day, as we contrast 
what we shall be on the marriage day, with what we were 
when he found us ! 

Eph. 5:22-30, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your 



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own husbands as unto the Lord; for the husband is the 
head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church ; 
and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the Church 
is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be unto their own 
husbands in everything. 

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved 
the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify 
it and cleanse it, with the washing of water by the word, 
that he might present it to himself, a glorious Church, 
not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it 
should be holy and without blemish ; for we are members of 
his body, and of his flesh, and of his bones. This is a 
great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the 
Church." "If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with 
him." 

From the foregoing Scripture quotations we are fully 
justified in making the following contrasts : 

The Church vs. the 144,000. 

The Church are Sons of God. I John 3:2, Re 
8:14, 16, 21. 

The 144,000 are servants. Eev. 7:3. 

The Church is sealed by the Spirit unto the day of 
redemption. Eph. 1 :13, 14. Eph. 4 :30. 

The 144,000 are sealed after the day of redemption of 
the Church, by the fifth angel for the tribulation. Rev. 
7:3. 

The Church is translated, the wise virgins before the 
tribulation, Rev. 4:4, and the foolish virgins after they 
are slain in the tribulation. Rev. 7 :7-17. 

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The Church is composed of all nations, kindreds, 
peoples, and tongues. Eev. 5 :9, 10. 

The 144,000 have not a Gentile among them. They 
are all Israelites. Eev. 7:1-8. 

The Church comes back with the Lord. Jude 14. 
The 144,000 meet him on Mount Zion after he comes. 
Rev. 14:1. 

The Church are the rulers of the Kingdom. Rev. 
5:9, 10; 20:4-6. 

The 144,000 are the subjects. Matt. 19:28; Luke 
22 :29, 30. 

The Church are immortals. Luke 20:35, 36. I Cor. 
15 :53, 54. 

The 144,000 are mortals. Isa. 65 :17-25. 

"Be of good cheer, ye friends of Jesus ; 

Never succumb to doubts and fears; 
Cherish the great and precious promise, 

To reign with Christ a thousand years. 
To reign a thousand years with Jesus, 

Free from all trials, toils and fears — 
This is the Father's precious promise, 

To reign with Christ a thousand years. 

Be of good cheer; earth's night of sorrow 

Shortly will close, with all its fears ; 
Then shall arise the glorious morrow, 

To reign with Christ a thousand years. 
To reign a thousand years with Jesus, 

More than requites for all our tears ; 
This is the sure and gracious promise, 

To reign with Christ a thousand years. 



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Be of good cheer; time's painful conflicts 

All will be done when Christ appears ; 
Then will begin that glorious era, 

The reign with Christ a thousand years. 
To reign a thousand years with Jesus, 

Far from the tempter's lures and snares ; 
With the redeemed of every nation, 

Eeigning with Christ a thousand years. 

Be of good cheer; ten thousand ages, 

Perfect in bliss and free from tears, 
Soon will begin their endless cycle, 

Reigning with Christ a thousand years. 
Ten thousand times ten thousand ages, 

Freedom from sin and death and tears — 
What an eternal weight of glory, 

Comes with that reign of a thousand years." 






CHAPTEE X. 



The Hope of the Nations, the Gentiles. 



This whole chapter deals with the Kingdom, and not 
with the Church; so that what is here said is nationally 
and not individually. In the Church all stand on the 
same footing, and Israel has no advantage over the Gen- 
tiles, hut not so in the Kingdom. 

Jesus, the Christ, is to be King over all the earth, but 
the Scriptures have so often said that he is to sit on 
David's Throne, and reign over the twelve tribes of Israel, 
that the question naturally arises, Where do the Gentiles 
come in? 

God answers this question time and again. In EzekieFs 
riddle, chapter 17:22, The tender twig taken from the 
high cedar of Lebanon was to be planted on the eminent 
and high mountain of Israel ; and under its branches were 
to dwell all fowl of every wing. In the shadow of its 
branches they were to dwell. And so the Gentiles are to 
take shelter under the protection of Israel, and become 
their servants. All who oppressed Israel must come bend- 
ing unto them, and be their servants forever. 

This is the pith of the blessing which Noah pronounced 
on Shem, when he said, "Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of 
servants shall he be unto his brethren. Blessed be the Lord 
God of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall 
enlarge Japheth : and He shall dwell in the tents of Shem, 
and Canaan shall be his servant." Shem is blessed above 

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his brethren. There is no denying the fact that God rati- 
fied these blessings, and the curse of Canaan ; for all along 
down the ages they have shown these characteristics, and it 
is so today. The Shemites are eminently supreme. They 
have blessed the world far above all others. It is only 
through them that God has ever made known his will to 
men. What have any of The Hamitic tribes ever done 
to bless the world? As the most prominent type of the 
Hamitic family, look at the negroes in Africa today. 
What advancement have they made in all of these coun- 
tries in which they have had undisputed possession of a 
large part, at least, of that great, and naturally wealthy 
continent? They have never built for themselves a state 
house. They have built no colleges, no school houses, no 
churches, no asylums. They have never even built them- 
selves homes to live in, no farming tools, not even a wheel- 
barrow. They have done no mining, nor even picked up 
the diamonds that their bare feet have crunched over. 
Are they equal to the Shemites, the Jews and the Anglo- 
Saxons? When brought to this country, and in contact 
with the great family of the Shemites, they have made 
progress; for in that they are fulfilling their God-given 
destiny. They are servants by Divine appointment, and 
in that capacity they are happy, and make their greatest 
progress ; and whoever attempts to place them on the same 
footing with the Shemites, does them an injury, and runs 
counter to God's plan of greatest blessings to all the na- 
tions. Here God solved the race problem centuries ago. 
And the only reason we have a race problem now is because 
we are running counter to God's plan. Let no one take 
offense at God's plan; for the offer of eternal life, and 
rulership among the bride is offered during this gospel 






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age alike to all. The Hamitic peoples in this relation 
stand on an equal footing with the Israelites and all others. 

Take a sweeping glance at all of the Hamitic peoples, 
the Chinese, the Japanese, the Malays, the east and west 
Indians, and the Negroes, and what trophy of art or litera- 
ture can they lay on the altar of civilization? What gar- 
land can they place on the statue of human liberty ? Where 
are their inventions that have blessed the world? Where 
are their great books, or schools, or universities that have 
elevated mankind, and comforted the hearts of the sor- 
rowing ? 

Look at the Japhetic nations all over the world today 
and it will be seen that those that have been brought in 
closest contact with Great Britain, America and Germany, 
represent the highest civilization among them. What 
would Eussia be without the Saxon influence that is ex- 
erted upon her? The Latin races have deteriorated since 
the palmy days of Eome. 

God has chosen to bless the world through Israel, and 
he has never turned from that plan. All his oracles were 
made known through them, every prophet that was ever 
given to the world was of them ; and it is in them that his 
Son shall be glorified. Through them he has made a way 
for the other nations, and only through them. 

Isa. 61 :4-6, "And they shall build the old wastes, they 
shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair 
the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. And 
strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of 
the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 
But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord : men shall 
call you the Ministers of our God : ye shall eat the riches 



138 THE COMING KINGDOM 

of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast your- 
selves." 

Isa. 1J>:1, 2, "For the Lord will have mercy upon 
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their 
land; and the strangers (the Gentiles) shall be joined with 
them, and they shall cleave to the House of Jacob." 

This is the hope of the nations — to be joined to Israel, 
and to cleave to the House of Jacob. "And the peoples 
shall take them (that is Israel) and bring them to their 
place ; and the House of Israel shall possess them (that is 
the Gentiles) in the land of the Lord, for servants and 
handmaids; and they shall take them captives, whose cap- 
tives they were; and they (that is Israel) shall rule over 
their oppressors." Isa. 14:24-27, "The Lord of Hosts 
hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it 
come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand; 
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my 
mountains tread him under my feet; then shall his yoke 
depart off them (that is Israel), and his burden from off 
their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon 
the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out 
upon all nations. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, 
and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, 
and who shall turn it back ?" 

Yes, indeed, who shall change God's plan for the salva- 
tion of the nations? We may preach their equality until 
Jesus comes, but it will not make them equal; for it is 
decreed that they must be the servants of Israel, and we 
cannot change it. We are foolish to try. We must declare 
what is written, and not what we think it ought to be. If 
our theories run against the facts, then our theories must 
go. The facts we cannot remove, they are stubborn things, 



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and we must deal with them, whether we will or not. God 
has planned that the Gentiles may come in and be joined 
with Israel as their servants, but in no other way. If we 
would be efficient in his service we must work on that plan. 

Christ himself is speaking through the prophet Isaiah 
when he says, Isa. 49 :5, 6, "Though Israel be not gath- 
ered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and 
God shall be my strength. And he (God) said, It is too 
light a thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up 
the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. 
I will also give thee (that is Christ) for a light to the 
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends 
of the earth." 

Under the old dispensation God's favors were heaped 
upon Israel, and he promised to make them a great nation 
over whom his Son should reign. But in the Gospel dis- 
pensation, in the calling forth of the Bride, he has chosen 
to take them out of every kindred, nation, people and 
tongue. In this dispensation, all stand on an equal foot- 
ing as individuals, in Christ Jesus; but not nationally. 
In the selection of the cabinet, and all the officers of his 
Kingdom, and all the attendants of the Bride, we are told 
that neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any- 
thing, neither high nor low, neither bond nor free, neither 
male nor female, makes any difference. All have the 
offer of the gift of eternal life, through Christ, our Lord, 
and of being honored in his Kingdom. When this gospel 
age ends, and Christ sets up his Kingdom, Israel will be 
the recipient of all the great promises that God has cove- 
nanted to give to them; and the nation that will not serve 
them shall be blotted out. 

Isa. ±9:22, 23, "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I 



140 THE COMING KINGDOM 

will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my stand- 
ard to the people; and they (the Gentiles) shall bring thy 
sons (Israel) in their arms, and thy daughters shall be 
carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy 
nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; 
and they (the Gentiles) shall bow down to thee (Israel) 
with their faces toward the earth, and lick up the dust of 
thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord (Jesus) ; 
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." 

Isa. 60:1, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and 
the glory of the Lord (Jesu») is risen upon thee." The 
pronouns, thee and thou and thy in this chapter refer to 
Jerusalem, its inhabitants, and Zion, which are used 
synonymously here. "For, behold, the darkness shall cover 
the earth, and gross darkness the people." This refers to 
the great tribulation just before the coming of the Lord 
Jesus to reign. "But the Lord (Jesus) shall arise upon 
thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gen- 
tiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness 
of thy rising. 

"Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they (the 
Gentiles) gather themselves together, they come to thee: 
thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be 
nursed at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, 
and thy heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the 
abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, and the 
wealth of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. The multi- 
tudes of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian 
(Abraham's son from Keturah), and Ephah (Midian's 
son)." It simply means that the descendants of these 
people will bring their wealth into Jerusalem when Jesus 
reigns. 






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"All they of Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold 
and incense and they shall show forth the praises of the 
Lord. All the flocks of Kedar (the second son of Ishmael) 
shall be gathered unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth (Ish- 
mael's first born) shall minister unto thee ; they shall come 
up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the 
house of my glory. 

Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their 
windows? Surely the isles will wait for me (the Christ) 
and the ships of Tarshish (England) first, to bring thy 
sons from far, and their silver and their gold with them, 
unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One 
of Israel (the Christ) because he hath glorified thee (Jeru- 
salem). And the sons of strangers (the Gentiles) shall 
build up thy walls (Jerusalem), and their kings shall min- 
ister unto thee, for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my 
favor have I had mercy on thee. 

"Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they 
shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring unto 
thee the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings may 
be brought. For the nation and the kingdom that will not 
serve thee {Jerusalem, Israel's capital) shall perish; yea, 
those nations shall he utterly wasted. 

"The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir 
tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the 
place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my 
feet glorious. The sons of them that afflicted thee (Jeru- 
salem and Israel therein) shall come bending unto thee; 
and all that despise thee shall bow down themselves at the 
soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee (Jerusalem) the 
city of the Lord (Jesus) the Zion of the Holy One of 
Israel. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so 



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that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal 
excellency, a joy of many generations. Thou shalt also 
suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou shalt suck the 
breasts of kings, and thou shalt know that I the Lord 
(Jesus) am thy Savior and thy Eedeemer, and the Mighty 
One of Jacob. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I 
will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron; 
I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors 
righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard in thy 
land, wasting and destruction in thy border ; but thou shalt 
call thy walls Salvation and thy gates Praise. The sun 
shall no more be thy light by day; neither for brightness 
shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord (Jesus) 
shall be an everlasting light unto thee, and thy God thy 
glory. The sun shall no more go down, neither shall the 
moon withdraw itself; for the Lord (Jesus) shall be thine 
everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be 
ended." 

Israel has been greatly humiliated and debased, she has 
been persecuted and scorned by the Gentiles, but we can 
hardly conceive what her glory will be when God performs 
all the good things he has promised to her. 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Tribulation, or, the Day of the Lord. 



Someone has aptly said, "What a sea of blood and 
tears rolls between us and the redemption of Israel I" All 
of the plagues and judgments in the book of Revelation 
must come upon the earth before that is fully accomplished. 

The Day of the Lord. 

The following scriptures show that the Day of the Lord 
is the tribulation period that immediately precedes the 
coming of the Lord. Amos. 5 : 18-24, "Woe unto you that 
desire the Day of the Lord. To what end is it for you? 
The Day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a 
man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into 
the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent 
bit him. Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness, and 
not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?" Joel 
2:1, 2, 11, "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an 
alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the 
land tremble, for the Day of the Lord cometh, for it is 
nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of gloominess, as the 
morning spread upon the mountains. The day of the 
Lord is great and very terrible, and who can abide it?" 
Zeph. 1 :14-18, "The great Day of the Lord is near, it is 
near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the Day of the 
Lord; the mighty man shall cry bitterly. That day is a 
day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste- 
ness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a 

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day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet 
and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high- 
towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they 
shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against 
the Lord, and their blood shall be poured out as the dust, 
and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor gold 
shall be able to deliver them in the Day of the Lord's 
wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire 
of his jealousy; for he shall make a speedy riddance of 
all them that dwell in the land." 

John tells us in Rev. 1 :10 that he "was in the spirit 
on the Lord's Day" when he had his great apocalyptic 
vision; that is, he saw the whole scene of the Tribulation 
enacted. The whole book of Revelation from the fourth 
chapter on is a portrayal of the judgments that are to 
come on the world after the rapture of the saints. The 
translation of the four and twenty elders from earth to 
heaven and their coronation with golden crowns, and their 
establishment on their regal thrones can be nothing less 
than the first resurrection. Rev. 20:4-6 shows the same 
thing. Hence we see that the Day of the Lord, or the 
Lord's Day has a definite and specific meaning in Old and 
New Testaments, which is the tribulation period just be- 
fore the ushering in of our Lord's glorious reign. 

The Antichrist, the Lawless One, must soon be revealed. 
He will lead the forces of evil through this darkest period 
of the world's history. See what is said of this climax of 
the incarnation of evil. 

The Antichrist. 

I John 2:18, 22, "Little children, it is the last time; 
and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now 



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are there many antichrists ; whereby we know that it is the 
last time. He is antichrist that denieth the Father and 
the Son." I John 4 :3, "Every spirit that confe6seth not 
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and 
this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that 
it should come ; and even now is already in the world/' 

// Thes. 2:8-12, "Let no man deceive you by any 
means; for the Day of the Lord shall not come, except 
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be 
revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth 
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; 
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing 
himself that he is God. Eemember ye not, that, when I 
was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye 
know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be 
revealed in his own season. For the mystery of iniquity 
doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now 
(the Holy Spirit), until he be taken out of the way. And 
then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord 
Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and shall 
destroy with the brightness of his coming; even he, whose 
coming is according to the working of Satan with all 
power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of 
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they re- 
ceive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, 
that they should believe a lie; that they all might be 
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in 
unrighteousness." 

Dan. 7:23-25 (Leeser), "The fourth beast signifieth 
that a fourth kingdom will be upon the earth, which is to 
be different from all kingdoms, and will devour all the 



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earth, and will tread it down, and grind it up. And the 
ten horns out of this kingdom signify that ten kings will 
arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be 
different from the first, and three kings will he bring low. 
And he will speak words against the Most High, and the 
saints of the Most High will he oppress and think to 
change the festivals and the law: and they will be given 
up into his hand until a time and times and a half time. 
(Three and a half years.) But they will sit down to hold 
judgment, and they will take away his dominion, to 
destroy and to annihilate it unto the end/' 

Dan. 8:23-25 (Leeser), "And in the latter time of 
their kingdom, when the transgressors have filled the meas- 
ure of their guilt, there will arise a king of an impudent 
face, and understanding deep schemes. And his power 
will be mighty, but not by his own power; and he will 
destroy wonderfully, and will prosper while he doeth this ; 
and he will destroy very many and the people of the saints. 
And through his intelligence, and because he prospereth, 
is craftiness in his hand ; and in his heart will he magnify 
himself, and in peace will he destroy many: he will also 
stand up against the Prince of princes; but without a 
human hand will he be broken." 

Dan. 9:26, 21 (Leeser), "And the people of the prince 
that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; 
but his end will come in a violent overflow ; but until the 
end of the war devastations are decreed against it. And 
he will make a strong covenant with many for one seven; 
and in the half of the seven will he cause the sacrifice and 
the oblation to cease, and this because of the prevalence of 
the abominations which bringeth devastation, and until 



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147 



destruction and what is decreed shall be poured out upon 
the waster." 

Such is the Antichrist who is yet to be revealed. The 
Devil counterfeits everything that God does, as far as he 
is able. Hence the mystery of Godliness has its counter- 
feit in the Mystery of Iniquity. 

The Mystery of Godliness. The Mystery of Iniquity. 





(I Tim. 3:16.) 




'(2 Thes. 2:7.) 




1 Father. 




1 Satan, the Dra- 


The 






gon. 


Trinity' 


2 Son. 


The 


2 Antichrist, the 






Trinity ' 


first beast. 




3 Holy Spirit. 




3 False Prophet, 






the second 
beast. 


God gives all power and au- 


Satan gives power and au- 


thority to the Son. 


thority to the Antichrist. 


Christ declared himself to 


Antichrist sits in the temple 


be the son of God. 


declaring himself God. 


Christ was dead and is alive. 


Antichrist had the deadly 




wound and was healed. 


Christ "V 


rill have his epiph- 


Antichr 


ist will be revealed. 



any. 
Christ is to be King of 

kings and Lord of lords. 
Christ demands homage and 

obedience. 
Christ's ministry was three 

and a half years. 



Antichrist will be king of 
kings and lord of lords. 

Antichrist demands worship 
to the image. 

Antichrist will reign three 
and a half years. 



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The holy angels guard the The devil's angels seduce 

saints. men. 

The Holy Spirit, our Para- The False Prophet, the sec- 

clete. ond wild beast. 

The Church, the bride of The false church, the great 

Christ. whore. 

Jerusalem, the holy city, the Babylon, the abomination, 

bride of the Lamb. the mother of harlots. 

Holy angels are messengers Evil spirits, through spirit- 

of truth to men. ualism, lie to men. 

The servants of God are„to The servants of Antichrist 

be sealed in their fore- will be sealed in their 

heads. foreheads and in their 

hands. 

These forces are at war with each other. Christ will 
slay the Antichrist with the breath of his mouth, and 
destroy him by the brightness of his coming. 

The Two Witnesses. 

It is during the reign of Antichrist that the two wit- 
nesses prophesy in Jerusalem ; and it is through them that 
all these plagues mentioned in the Revelation are brought 
upon the earth. They are the visible opponents of the 
Antichrist. The Antichrist makes war with the saints and 
overcomes them, and finally the two witnesses are killed in 
Jerusalem, and their dead bodies lie three days unburied 
in the streets of Jerusalem. Many have been the guesses 
as to who these two witnesses are. There can be little 
doubt that the Seer of Patmos is one of them ; for he said 
in Revelation 1 :9, when speaking of the Kingdom of Christ 
and the tribulation period, and of the waiting for his 



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coming, that he would be a companion in these times with 
the living saints. "I John who also am your brother, and 
companion in the tribulation, and in the kingdom and pa- 
tience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, 
for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ." 
In Kev. 10 :11 the angel said to him, "Thou must prophesy 
again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and 
kings." So far as we know, this prophecy has not been ful- 
filled: hence his prophecy is yet to be delivered. Jesus 
seems to have hinted at the same thought in John 21 :22, 
23 when Peter asked, "What shall this man do?" "And 
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, 
What is that to thee ? Then went this saying abroad among 
the brethren, that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus 
said not unto him, He shall not die ; but, If I will that he 
tarry till I come, what is that to thee ?" He is the Apos- 
tolic, or Church representative for the saints in the tribula- 
tion. 

The most natural thought then follows that Israel, or 
the kingdom, must also have a representative. Who could 
he be but Elijah who was to be sent back to earth just 
before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the 
Lord? Mai. 4:5, "Behold I will send you Elijah the 
prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day 
of the Lord." 

Let us now give our attention to the description given 
in the prophecies of these three and one half years of 
trouble; or in other words, the Day of the Lord. It will 
be a day of darkness, a day of sin and great wickedness, a 
day that will try the hearts of men, and they will melt 
and quake with fear, and succumb to the powers of evil. 
It will be a day when truth will be on the scaffold and wrong 



15<T THE COMING KINGDOM 

will be on the throne. Justice will miscarry and anarchy 
will reign. Nations will be distressed, and the rulers 
will not know how to avert the impending calamities that 
they see ahead of them. 

"When the Son of man comes will he find faith on the 
earth?" Not much; for the wise virgins, that is the over- 
comers, will be taken from the earth at the rapture, and 
hence will escape the direst part of the tribulation period. 
The foolish virgins, or vanquished saints, will be slain as 
we we are told in Eevelation 6:9-11. The blood of the 
martyrs was crying out for vengeance on them that dwell 
on the face of the earth, and it was said unto them, that 
they should rest yet for a little season, until their brethren 
and fellow servants, should be killed as they were. They 
were given white robes as a testimony of their righteous- 
ness, but they were not overcomers enough to escape the 
tribulation. Then after the sealing of the 144,000 of lit- 
eral Israel, which is the kingdom class, these foolish vir- 
gins are slain by the Antichrist, and come up before the 
throne clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands. 

So now all Christians are taken from the earth, the salt 
has been taken away and corruption follows. The light has 
been removed, and darkness ensues. Unbridled lust leads 
the inhabitants into every sin that is found in the catalog 
of human crimes. Green-eyed Jealousy flourishes her sword 
dripping with the crimson blood of her rival. Homes are 
broken up, and natural affection is lost in the maelstrom of 
iniquity that sweeps over the world. Friendships will be 
destroyed; for there will be none to keep faith one with 
another. Every one will fear the other, and as he flees 
from one evil, will only fall upon another. There will be 
a longing for some shelter and some rest from the hand of 



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evil, but there will be none. The Devil will hold high car- 
nival, and dance his hellish jubilee, until his followers all 
have worked out their own destruction. 

Dan. 12:1, "At that time shall Michael stand up, the 
great prince which standeth for the children of thy peo- 
ple ; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as there never 
was since there was a nation to that same time; and at 
that time shall thy people be delivered, everyone that shall 
be found written in the book." 

If we let our minds run over the history of the world, 
and think of the great troubles and disasters that darken 
its pages, we shall want to turn our faces from the day that 
is to come. We think of Rome in the days of Nero, when 
so many people were killed for the mere amusement of a 
depraved people. The gardens were lighted at night by the 
torture and burning of many Christians who sealed their 
testimony with their blood. The Spanish Inquisition arises 
as a ghastly and gory spectre, and makes one shudder at 
the mere thought of its being repeated in more terrible 
form. We think of the reign of terror in France, and the 
night of St. Bartholomew, when the streets of Paris flowed 
with human blood. 

The siege of Jerusalem comes to mind, where more than 
a million perished in almost every conceivable form — par- 
ents eating the flesh of their own children, and even fighting 
with each other over who should have the last morsel. The 
intrigues of royal courts where the hands of assassins 
played such havoc in laying aside all possible rivals, make 
one blush that he belongs to a race capable of such things. 

Famine and pestilence have played their part in ghastly 
fashion too, taking the beautiful human forms full of the 
tenderest sympathies, with high and noble impulses, and 



152 THE COMING KINGDOM 

transforming them into such hideous skeletons and mon- 
sters of cruelty and treachery that angels almost weep and 
turn away from the sight. 

All of these are to be surpassed by the severity of the 
Day of the Lord, as it is called in the word of God. The 
wheat has all been garnered into the barn, and the chaff is 
being driven of the wind, or cast into the fire. All have 
been fully warned time and time again that this day of 
trouble is coming, they have been told to be ready and es- 
cape all of these things. The prophets time and again 
portrayed these scenes in vivid colors, and urged the people 
to turn unto the Lord ; but they would not hear. So their 
damnation is just, and their punishment will elicit no 
pity. 

Prov. 1 :2IrSS y "Because I have called, and ye have re- 
fused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded, 
but ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none 
of my reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity; I will 
mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as 
desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, 
when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall 
you call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek 
me early, but they shall not find me; for that they hated 
knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They 
would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. 
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and 
be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of 
the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall 
destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell 
safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." 

Isa. 34:1-8, "Come near, ye nations, to hear; and 
hearken ye people. Let the earth hear, and all that is there- 






THE COMING KINGDOM 153 

in, the world and all things that come forth of it. For the 
indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury 
upon all armies. He hath utterly destroyed them, he hath 
delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be 
cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their car- 
casses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the 
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and all their 
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off the vine, as the 
falling fig from the fig tree. For my sword shall be bathed 
in heaven. For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and 
the controversy of Zion" 

Jer. 25:3 1, 33, "A noise shall come even to the ends 
of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the 
nations, he will plead with all flesh. He will give them 
that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord. Thus saith 
the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation 
to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from 
the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the Lord shall be 
at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other 
end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, neither 
gathered, nor buried ; they shall be dung upon the ground." 

II Esdras 5:1-12, "Nevertheless as concerning the 
tokens, behold the days shall come, that they which dwell 
upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the 
way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren 
of faith. But iniquity shall be increased above that which 
now thou seest, or that thou hast heard long ago. And the 
land that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted 
suddenly. But if the Most High grant thee to live, thou 
shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly 
shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day; 



154 THE COMING KINGDOM 

and blood shall drop out of the wood, and the stone shall 
give his voice, and the people shall be troubled. And even 
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the 
earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together; 
and the Sodomitish Sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise 
in the night, which many have not known; but they shall 
hear the voice thereof. There shall be a confusion also 
in many places, and fire shall be oft sent out again, and 
the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous 
women shall bring forth monsters. And salt water shall 
be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one an- 
other. Then shall wit hide itself, and understanding with- 
draw itself into the secret chamber, and shall be sought of 
many, and yet not be found. Then shall unrighteousness 
and inconsistency be multiplied upon the earth. One land 
also shall ask another, and say, Is righteosness that maketh 
a man righteous gone through thee ? and it shall say, No. 
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain ; they 
shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper." 

We have become so familiar with Scripture language 
that we read it, or utter the sentences, often without at 
all comprehending the meaning. If the thoughts expressed 
in Scripture language were expressed in modern phrase 
and slang, they would make our flesh creep for fear, and 
our hair stand on end with astonishment. 0, that we might 
be awakened from our lethargy, and aroused from our 
stupor, that we might all escape the impending fury of the 
storm that approaches! 

God's fury is kindled against the inhabitants of the 
whole earth for their great wickedness, and the cup of in- 
iquity is nearly full. A threat is a promise of mercy. God 
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and plagues, that men might turn to him and live. He 
will not keep his anger forever. Noah preached an hundred 
and twenty years, but the flood came and swept away the 
heedless, and many they were. "Lord, are there few that 
be saved?" 

Matt 2J>:3, 1-22, 29, SO, "Tell us, when shall these 
things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming ? and of 
the end of the age ? Nation shall rise against nation, and 
kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and 
pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All these are 
beginnings of sorrows. Then shall they deliver 
you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and 
ye shall be' hated of all nations for my name's 
sake. Then shall many be offended, and shall betray 
one another, and shall hate one another. And then many 
false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. And be- 
cause iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax 
cold. But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall 
be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached 
in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then 
shall the end come." Hence it must be plain to every 
thoughtful reader that the gospel of the kingdom will be 
the last message that will be given to the world just before 
the Lord comes. And this gospel of the Kingdom has not 
been preached since our Lord ascended from Mount Olivet. 
At that time he commanded his disciples to go out into all 
the world and preach the gospel of the ecclesia, which they 
did. But we must not close our eyes to the great truth 
that Jesus said this gospel of the kingdom must be 
preached just before the end comes. We believe that this 
book is the first announcement of that message. Eemember 
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row. "For there shall he great tribulation, such as was not 
since the beginning of the world to the present time, no, 
nor ever shall be. And except those days be shortened, 
there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake (the 
sealed 144,000) those days shall be shortened." 

We are told not to believe those who say that Christ 
has already come, or that he is over here or over there, or 
that he is reigning now; for they are all liars who teach 
such things. Let it be well fixed in every mind that Christ 
is not reigning now, nor will he reign until he has accom- 
plished his work as our great High Priest and not till after 
he has come and taken his bride from the earth. He can- 
not come with them until he has come and taken them, 
as he said, "If I go away, I will come again and receive 
you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." 
So our being with him depends on his coming again ; and 
his coming again will be to get his Bride. This will be as 
a thief in the night — the world will not know when the 
jewels are taken away. Then the dead in Christ shall rise 
first, and we who are alive will be changed in a moment, 
in the twinkling of an eye, and caught up to meet the 
Lord in the air ; then shall we ever be with the Lord. His 
coming with his saints follows this, as is described in the 
following language: 

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall 
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of 
the heavens shall be shaken ; and then shall appear the sign 
of the Son of man in heaven ; and then shall all the tribes 
of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man com- 
ing in the clouds with power and great glory. And he shall 
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gather together his elect (the 144,000) from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the other." 

But to get a full conception of the tribulation of those 
days which precede this glorious sight of his coming, we 
must take many other Scriptures yet. So great will be the 
destruction by the hand of the assassin, by wars, earth- 
quakes, volcanoes, famines and pestilences, that the earth 
will be almost emptied. So much so that a man will be 
more precious than the golden wedge of Ophir. So great 
will be the destruction that in our great cities like New 
York and Chicago, there will be only ten left, and only 
the barest few in the country districts. 

So lonely will they be as they creep forth from their 
hiding places, and from the caves and holes in the rocks, 
that they will long to hear the voice of a man. The proof 
of this shall follow in Scripture language, which we have 
many times read, but whose meaning has gone for nothing. 

Isa. 13:6-13, "Howl, ye, for the Day of the Lord is 
at hand ; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty : 
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart 
shall melt, and they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows 
shall take hold of them ; they shall be in pain as a woman 
that travaileth ; they shall be amazed one at another — their 
faces shall be as flames. 

"Behold, the Day of the Lord cometh, cruel both, with 
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate ; and he shall 
destroy the sinners out of it. For the stars of heaven and 
the constellations thereof shall not give their light ; and the 
sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon 
shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the 
world for their evil, and I will cause the arrogancy of the 
proud to cease, and I will lay low the haughtiness of the 



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terrible. And I will make a man more precious than fine 
gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. There- 
fore will I shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove 
out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and 
in the day of his fierce anger." 

Micah 7:1-6, "Woe is me! for I am as when they 
have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of 
the vintage ; there is no cluster to eat ; my soul desired the 
first ripe fruit. The good man is perished out of the earth ; 
and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait 
for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince 
asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great 
man, he uttereth his mischievous desire; so they wrap it 
up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is 
sharper than a thorn hedge : the day of thy watchmen and 
thy visitation cometh ; now shall be their perplexity. Trust 
ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide : keep 
the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 
For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up 
against her mother, the daughter in law against herlmother 
in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house." 

Isa. 2^:1-23, "Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, 
and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down and scat- 
tereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be as 
with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so 
with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; 
as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so 
with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the 
giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, 
and utterly spoiled, for the Lord hath spoken this word. 

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guisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth 
do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabi- 
tants thereof, because they have transgressed the law, 
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they 
that dwell therein are desolate : threfore the inhabitants of 
the earth are burned, and few men are left. The new wine 
mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do 
sigh. The mirth of tabret ceaseth, the noise of them that 
rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall 
not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to 
them that drink it. The city of confusion is broken down, 
every man's house is shut up, that no man may come in. 
There is crying for wine in the streets ; all joy is darkened, 
the mirth of the land is gone. In the city is left desola- 
tion, and the gate is smitten with destruction. For thus 
it shall be in the midst of the land among the nations, 
these shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the 
gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. These shall 
lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the 
Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea. Wherefore glor- 
ify the Lord in the valleys, in the isles of the sea, the 
name of the Lord, the God of Israel. From the edge of 
the earth have ye heard songs. Glory to the righteous. But I 
said, Evil is mine, evil is mine, woe is me ! The treacherous 
have dealt treacherously; yea the treacherous have dealt 
very treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare are 
upon thee, oh inhabitants of the land ! And it shall come 
to pass, that he who fleeth from the call of the fear, shall 
fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst 
of the pit, shall be caught in the snare; for the windows 
from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth 



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do quake. The earth is entirely crushed ; the earth is split 
in pieces ; the earth is shaken to its center. The earth reel- 
eth to and fro as a drunkard, and vibrateth as a watch hut ; 
and its transgression lies heavy upon it: and it shall fall 
and shall not rise again. And it shall come to pass on that 
day that the Lord shall punish the host of wicked spirits 
in the heavens, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 
And they shall be gathered in heaps, as prisoners in the 
prison, and shall be shut up in the dungeon, and thus after 
many days shall they be punished. And the moon shall 
be put to the blush, and the sun ashamed; fr the Lord 
(Jesus) shall reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, 
and before his ancients in glory/' 

Joel 2:1-11, (Leeser), "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, 
and sound an alarm on my holy mount; let all the inhab- 
tants of the land tremble ; for the Day of the Lord cometh, 
for it is nigh. It is a day of darkness and of gloom, a day 
of clouds and tempestuous obscurity, like the morning- 
dawn spread out upon the mountains: a people numerous 
and strong, the like of which has never been, and after them, 
there will be none any more, even to the years of all com- 
ing generations. Before them devoureth a fire ; and behind 
them singeth a flame; like the garden of Eden was the land 
before they came, and after them is a desolate wilderness, 
yea, and nothing escapeth from them. Like the appearance 
of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen do they 
run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains 
do they leap ; they are like the noise of fire consuming the 
stubble, as a strong people arrayed for a battle. 

"At their presence the people are much pained ; all the 
faces are covered with blackness. Like mighty men do they 
run; like men of war they climb up a wall; and they 



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march every one on his own ways, and they turn not aside 
from their paths. And they do not press one another, 
every one on his beaten track do they go forward : and they 
pass through between warlike weapons, and change not 
their puropse. Into the city they hasten forward; on the 
wall they run : into the houses they climb up ; through the 
windows they make their entrance like a thief. Before 
them trembleth the earth ; the heavens quake ; the sun and 
the moon are obscured ; and the stars withdraw their bright- 
ness. 

"And the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for 
very numerous is his camp : for strong is he that executeth 
his word: for great is the Day of the Lord and very ter- 
rible; and who is able to endure it?" 

Amos. 5:18-20, "Woe unto ye that desire the Day of 
the Lord ! to what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord 
is darkness and not light. As if a man did flee from a 
lion, and a bear met him ; or went into a house, and leaned 
his hand upon a wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not 
the Day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even 
very dark, and no brightness in it." 

II Esdras 16, "The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues, 
and who is he that can drive them away ? A fire shall go 
forth from his wrath, and who is he that can quench it? 
He shall cast his lightnings and who shall not fear? he 
shall thunder, and who shall not be af aid ? The Lord shall 
threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder 
at his presence ? 

"The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the 
sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of 
it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, 
and before the glory of his power : for strong is his right 



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hand that bendeth the bow, his arrows that he shooteth 
are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot 
into the ends of the earth. The fire is kindled, and shall 
not be put out, till it consume the foundation of the earth. 

"Like an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer, re- 
turneth not backward; even so the plagues that are sent 
upon the earth shall not return again. Woe is me ! woe i» 
me ! who will deliver me in those days ? The beginning of 
sorrows and great mourning; the beginning of famine and 
great dearth ; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall 
stand in fear ; the beginning of evils ; what shall I do when 
these evils shall come? Behold, famine and plague, tribu- 
lation and anguish are sent as scourges for amendment. 

"But for all these things they shall not turn from their 
wickedness, nor be always mindful of thy scourges. Behold, 
victuals shall be so good, and cheap upon the earth, that 
they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even 
then shall evils grow upon the earth, sword, famine, and 
great confusion. 

"For many of them that dwell upon the earth shall 
perish with famine : and the others that escape the hunger, 
shall the sword destroy. And the dead shall be cast out 
as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them; and 
the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down. 
There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it. 
The trees shall give fruit and who shall gather them, the 
grapes shall ripen and who shall tread them? For all 
places shall be desolate of men. So that one man shall de- 
sire to see another and to hear his voice. 

"For of a city there shall "be ten left, and two in the 
field, which shall hide themselves in the thick groves and in 
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every tree, there are left three or four olives; or as when 
a vineyard is gathered there are left some clusters of them, 
that diligently seek through the vineyard; even so in those 
days, there shall be three or four left by them that search 
their houses with the sword. And the earth shall be laid 
waste, and the fields threof shall wax old, and her ways 
and all her paths shall grow full of thorns because no man 
shall travel therethrough. The virgins shall mourn, having 
no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn having no hus- 
bands; their daughters shall mourn having no help- 
ers. In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed 
and their husbands shall perish with famine. Hear now 
these things, and understand them, ye servants of the Lord. 
Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the 
gods of whom the Lord spake. Behold, the plagues draw 
nigh and are not slack. As when a woman with child in 
the ninth month bringeth forth her son, in two or three 
hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which 
pains, when the child cometh forth they slack not a mo- 
ment; even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon 
the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrow shall 
come upon it on every side. Oh my people, hear my words ; 
make ye ready for the battle, and in those evils be as pil- 
grims upon the earth. He that selleth let him be as he that 
fleeth away ; and he that buyeth, as one that will lose. He 
that occupieth merchandise as he that hath no profit by it ; 
and he that buildeth, as he that shall not dwell therein. 
He that soweth, as if he should not reap; so also he that 
planteth a vineyard, as he that shall not gather the grapes : 
they that marry, as they that shall get no children: and 
they that marry not, as they that are widowers. And there- 
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reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their 
houses, and take their children captives: for in captivity 
and famine shall they get children. And they that occupy 
merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cit- 
ies, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons; 
the more will I be angry with them for their sins, saith 
the Lord. As a whore envieth a righteous and virtuous 
woman, so shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she deck- 
eth herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he com- 
eth that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out 
every sin upon the earth. And therefore be ye not like 
thereunto, nor to the works thereof; for yet a little while 
and iniquity shall be taken out of the earth, and righteous- 
ness shall reign among you. Let not the sinner say that he 
hath not sinned ; for God shall burn coals of fire upon his 
head, which saith before the Lord God of his glory, I have 
not sinned. 

"Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of man, their 
imaginations, their thoughts, their hearts, which speak 
but the word, Let the earth be made, and it was made; 
Let the heaven be made, and it was created. In his word 
were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them. 
He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath 
measured the sea and what it containeth; and when your 
sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men, and 
your sins shall be your accusers in that day. What will ye 
do? or how will ye hide your sins before God and his 
angels? For there shall be in every place, and in the next 
cities, a great insurrection upon these that fear the Lord. 
They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoil- 
ing and destroying those that fear the Lord. For they shall 
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houses. Then shall they be known who are my chosen; 
and they shall be tried as gold in the fire. 

"Hear, oh ye my beloved, saith the Lord; behold the 
days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the 
same. Be ye not afraid, neither doubt; for God is your 
guide, and the God of them who keep my commandments 
and precepts; saith the Lord God. Let not your sins 
weigh you down, and let not your iniquities lift up them- 
selves. 

"Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and 
covered with their iniquities, like as a field is covered over 
with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that 
no man may travel through. It is left undressed, and is 
cast into the fire to be consumed therewith." 

Few Bible readers have read this passage from the 
Apocrypha which sets forth the tribulation period in such 
awful colors, and with such minute delineation. And yet 
it accords perfectly with what is given by the other proph- 
ets and by Jesus himself. 

Because these Scriptures have been read by so many in 
such a meaningless way, and without placing them in their 
proper setting, we have given the full text of them, that the 
reader may not be troubled to look them up, nor fail to 
see how plainly God has told us of the plagues and judg- 
ments that are coming upon the earth just before his com- 
ing, and that those who hear and obey may escape all of 
these things. 

Luke 21 :SIf'36, "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any 
time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunk- 
enness, and the cares of this life, and so that day may come 
upon you unawares; for as a snare shall it come upon all 
them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth. Watch 



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ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted 
worthy to escape all these things, and to stand before the 
Son of man." 

So we see that it is possible to escape all these plagues 
and calamities, and to be safe with Jesus in glory, and in 
the very courts of the King. 

In these times when there is such a centralization of the 
money powers into great combinations called trusts, let us 
not fail to see that this is one of the signs of the last times, 
as is clearly set forth in God's word. 

Jos. 5:1-7, "Go to, now, ye rich men, weep and howl 
for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches 
are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your 
gold and silver is cankered : and the rust of them shall be 
a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were 
fire. Ye have heaped treasures together for the last days. 
Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your 
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the 
cries of them which have reaped have entered into the ears 
of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the 
earth, and been wanton: ye have nourished your hearts as 
in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the 
just: and he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, 
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord ; for the coming of 
the Lord draweth near." 

Think of the great conflicts between labor and capi- 
tal, and how the just have often been killed, and the labor- 
ers turned from their rights, and have not resisted. The 
rust of hoarded millions is a witness that will not down in 
the presence of the great Judge. But it will be as the cin- 
ders from the forge, that will burn the flesh of those who 
have heaped them unjustly in these last days. 






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We can hear the rumbling of the chariot wheels and the 
trampling of the hoofs of the war-horses as they gather for 

The Battle of Armageddon. 

See the mobilizing hosts! They are gathering for 
that great day. Under Russia's banner are they mar- 
shalled. The Czar is the nominal leader by whom 
all the armies are assembled. But back of all this there is 
a hidden power, behind the curtain he works, and with 
gloved hand does he show his power. It is the man of sin. 
He has not yet been revealed. This is Satan's host. They 
are being assembled to go up on the mountains of Israel 
to take a prey, to get a spoil. What moves them to do 
this? Rev. 16 :12-16, "And the sixth angel poured out his 
vial upon the river Euphrates, and the water thereof was 
dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be 
prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come 
out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth of 
the Beast, and out of the mouth of the False Prophet. For 
they are spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth 
unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together 
unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. And 
they gathered them together unto the place which is called 
in Hebrew, Armageddon." 

Enoch. 60 :l-6, "In the year five hundred, in the seventh 
month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of 
Enoch. In that similitude I saw how the heaven of heavens 
quaked with a mighty earthquake, and the host of the Most 
High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thous- 
and times ten thousand, were thrown into an exceeding 
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His glory and the angels and the righteous stood around 
Him. And a great trembling seized me, and fear took 
hold of me : my loins became relaxed and my whole being 
melted away, and I fell upon my face. Then Michael 
sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised 
me up and my spirit returned; for I had not been able to 
endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the 
quaking of the heaven. And Michael said unto me : What 
vision has so disquieted thee ? Until this day lasted the day 
of His mercy; for He was merciful and long-suffering 
towards those who dwell on the earth. But when the day, 
and the power, and the punishment, and the judgment have 
come which the Lord of Spirits has prepared for those who 
serve not the righteous law and for those who deny the 
righteous judgment and for those who take His name in 
vain — that day is prepared; for the elect a covenant, but 
for sinners an inquisition/' 

Thus we see how these nations are being led on, by the 
powers of evil that control them, to their utter defeat and 
almost complete destruction. Russia's doom is written. 
Her destiny is sealed. But her cup of iniquity is not quite 
full. God is against her and all her bands. They see not 
the pit that is dug for them. Too blind to see the lowering 
clouds that gather on her horizon, too deaf to hear the mut- 
tering thunder that forewarns of the approaching storm, 
she heeds not the signs of the times, nor the warnings from 
the finger of God. She is not a heathen nation. She has 
the Bible. But surely the thirty-eighth and the thirty- 
ninth chapters of Ezekiel are as a sealed book to her priests. 
Listen ! "Son of man, set thy face against Gog, (the Czar) 
of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, (Russia) Me- 
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him and say, "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am 
against thee, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal : 
and I will turn thee about, and put hooks in thy jaws, 
and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses, and 
horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great com- 
pany with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords, 
Persia, Cush and Phut (sons of Ham) with them, and all 
of them with shield and helmet; Gomer (another son of 
Japheth) and all his hordes, the house of Togarmah 
(Gomer's son), in the uttermost parts of the north, and all 
his hordes ; even many people with him. 

"Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all 
thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou 
commander unto them. 

"After many days thou shalt be visited; in the latter 
years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back 
from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon 
the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual 
waste ; but it is brought forth out of the peoples ; and they 
shall dwell securely, all of them. 

"And thou shalt ascend, and thou shalt come like a 
storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, 
and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee. 

"Thus saith the Lord God: It shall come to pass in 
that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou 
shalt devise an evil device (the frog devil gets in his work), 
and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled 
villages; I will go up to them that are at rest, that dwell 
securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having 
neither bars nor gates; to take the spoil and to take a 
prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are 



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now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered 
out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that 
dwell in the middle of the earth. 

"Sheba and Dedan, (probably China and Japan) with 
the merchants of Tarshish (Great Britain) with all the 
young lions thereof, shall say unto them, Art thou come to 
take a spoil ? hast thou assembled thy company to take the 
prey? to carry away the silver and gold, to take away the 
cattle and goods, to take a great spoil ?" 

Here Great Britain, with two Hamitic tribes (one of 
them, Dedan, is Japan) challenges Kussia's advance on Pal- 
estine, as if to say, "We will resist you." 

"Therefore, Son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, 
Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of 
Israel dwelleth securely, shalt thou not know it ? And thou 
shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of 
the north, thou, and many people with thee, all of them 
riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army, 
and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud 
to cover the land ; it shall come to pass in the latter days, 
that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may 
know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, Gog, before 
their eyes. 

"Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I 
spake in old times by my servants the prophets of Israel, 
that prophesied in those days for many years that I would 
bring thee against them ? And it shall come to pass in that 
day, when Gog shall come up against the land of Israel, 
saith the Lord God, that my wrath shall come up into my 
nostrils. For in my jealousy and in the fire of "my wrath 
have I spoken." 






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The Assembling of the Opposing Hosts. 

Rev. 19:11, 16, "And I saw heaven opened, and be- 
hold, a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called 
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and 
make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his 
head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that 
no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed in a ves- 
ture dripped in blood ; and his name is called the Word of 
God. And the armies which were in heaven followed upon 
white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And 
out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should 
smite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of 
iron: and he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and 
wrath of the Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture 
and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord 
of Lords." 

The Feast of the Birds and Beasts. 

Eze. 39:17, 20, "And, thou son of man, thus saith the 
Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every 
beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come, gather 
yourselves together on every side to my sacrifice which I 
do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the moun- 
tains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye 
6hall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of 
the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, 
of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye shall 
eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, 
of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. Thus ye 
shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with 
mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God." 



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Rev. 19:17, 18, "And I saw an angel standing in the 
sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls 
that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather your- 
selves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye 
may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and 
the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of 
them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both bond 
and free, both small and great." 

It is plain to see that this battle of Armageddon, and 
this feast of the birds and the great earthquake take place 
at the second advent of Christ. Hence how foolish for 
any one to say, "Lo, he is here, or lo, he is there/' or 
"he is in the desert, or in the secret chamber" : for he says 
(Mat. 24 :28), "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will 
the eagles be gathered together." In other words, Don't 
believe the Christ has come till the Feast of the Birds and 
Beasts is spread; and that is the slain in the valley of 
Jehoshaphat at the battle of Armageddon. 

The Conflict. 

Ezelc. 38:21-23, "And I will call for a sword against 
Gog throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God; 
every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I 
will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; 
and I will rain upon him an overflowing rain, and great 
hail-stones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify my- 
self ; and sanctify myself ; and I will be known in the eyes 
of the nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord." 

Rev. 16:21, "And there fell upon men a great hail 
out of heaven, every stone about one hundred and three 
pounds; and men blasphemed God because of the plague 
and the hail ; for the plague thereof was exceedingly great." 



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It is during this conflict that the two witnesses men- 
tioned in Rev. 11 prophesy, and bring the plagues written 
in the whole book of Revelation upon their enemies until 
their testimony is finished, and their dead bodies lie three 
days in the streets of Jerusalem. But in the midst of the 
rejoicing of their enemies the earthquake occurs and slays 
of those in the city alone 7,000 men. And in the fields 
of Armageddon five-sixths of the Russian armies are slain, 
and so great is the slaughter that the fowls of the air, and 
the beasts of the fields, are satiated with the flesh and the 
blood of men and kings and beasts. 

Seven months will it take Israel to bury the dead of 
this great army. And so great will be the equipments 
left on the field that it will take seven years to consume 
them as fuel; so that they will take no wood out of the 
forest for fuel for all that time. 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Coming of the Kino. 



God made man and gave him dominion over the whole 
earth, and over every living thing upon it. It was his 
possession — his landed estate, and his chattels. The right 
of possession was in him from the Maker and Giver. It 
was his in fee simple with one condition. But man vio- 
lated the condition and thereby forfeited his right of pos- 
session. The title deeds went back to the Father. There 
they remained till there was found some one to redeem the 
lost inheritance. 

The Book of Redemption. 

In the Hebrew economy, when a man got in debt and 
mortgaged his property, there were two ways in which he 
could again come into possession of it. One was to wait 
till the year of jubilee, when it would revert to him by 
law. The other was to redeem it. When a piece of prop- 
erty was mortgaged, there were two deeds written and 
placed in the hands of the mortgagee, to be held by him 
until the land was redeemed. One of these deeds was an 
open deed which was his own title to the land under the 
contract. The other was a sealed title, and contained the 
rights of the original owner, or one who redeemed the 
estate. The owner or his nearest of kin were the only 
ones who could redeem the lost possession. When it was 
redeemed the sealed deed was delivered by the mortgagee 

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into the hands of the redeemer, and he alone could open 
the seals. 

As proof of this, see, in the fourth chapter of the book 
of Ruth, how Boaz assembled the court, and with what 
care he conducted the business of redeeming the possession 
of Ruth. There was another nearer of kin than he, whom 
he forced to renounce his right to redeem Ruth's posses- 
sion. And the right was transferred from the first kins- 
man to Boaz. As evidence of this transfer of the right to 
redeem, the kinsman plucked off his shoe in the presence 
of the court and the assembled witnesses and gave it to 
Boaz; for it was a custom in Israel concerning redeeming 
and changing that a man plucked off his shoe and gave it 
to his neighbor. Boaz then had the right to redeem Ruth's 
possession. This shoe title was not the redemption, but 
only the transfer of the right to redeem. 

In Jer. 32 :6-15 we have another case of such purchase 
with the sealed and open deeds. Now, man lost his estate 
and the title deeds went back to the Father, and they re- 
mained there until Jesus, our elder brother, paid the re- 
demption price and redeemed our lost possession. In 
Rev. 5 we see the Father seated upon his throne with the 
sealed deed in his hand. John wept much because there 
was no one to open the book and break the seals thereof. 
Just then one of the elders said unto him, "Weep not; 
for the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath 
prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals 
thereof." It was Jesus, our elder brother, who had re- 
deemed our lost possession. Here and in Dan. 7 we see 
him receiving his Kingdom — his right to own and rule this 
world. He is the nobleman of Luke 19 who went into a 
far country to receive for himself a Kingdom, and to re- 



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turn. During the time that man had lost his dominion, 
there came a usurper in, and took possession of the for- 
feited estate. He manifested his bold effrontery when he 
offered to our kinsman, our Redeemer, all the kingdoms of 
this world and the glory of them, if he would fall down 
and worship him. He knew that Jesus was then on his 
mission to redeem this estate, and it was Satan's purpose to 
deceive him as he had done our first parents, and gain the 
final victory over us and all our race. 

The opening of the seals, and the judgments that fol- 
low each, are for the purpose of destroying the usurper and 
his followers, and of casting them out forever. Satan has 
been the prince and ruler of this world for all these cen- 
turies. And it has been a period of misrule, and failure 
in human government; a period of terror, bloodshed and 
awful crime. It has culminated in the direful tribulation 
depicted in the last chapter, which is the legitimate fruit 
of Satan's methods of rule. 

In Rev. 10 we see Jesus, our Elder Brother, again in the 
person of the mighty angel, who came down from heaven, 
with his deed all open and in his hand and planted one 
foot on the sea and the other on the land, thus claiming 
sea and land of the whole earth, and declared with a loud 
voice that he would delay no longer to take possession of 
his estate. The earth is his by right of purchase and re- 
demption, and it is his right to rule it. The judgments 
are then sent to destroy Satan's power and his followers. 

Jesus had said that he was going away, but that he 
would come again and receive us unto himself. On the 
day that he led his disciples out of Jerusalem to the Mount 
of Olives, and ascended until the cloud received him out 
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heaven, simply looking up into empty space, two angels 
in white raiment stood by them and said, "Ye men of 
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same 
Jesus, which is taken up into heaven, shall so come in like 
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." 

In Zech. 14 and Rev. 14 we have the statements of 
his return. How fitting that his feet should first touch 
the Mount of Olives on his return — the place from which 
he departed. 

. While Satan has been the prince and ruler of this world 
— the prince of the powers of darkness — and the leader of 
hosts of wicked spirits in the air, yet he never has gained 
full supremacy over all the inhabitants of the world. God 
has ever kept a remnant for himself. In all the ages there 
have been those who rendered obedience to God and to 
Jesus his Son. These, the small minority, have ever been 
the salt of the earth that kept it from utter destruction. 
For these, God has preserved the world through all the 
ages, and granted mercies unto all for their sakes. 
;, He has tolerated Satan's rule, probably, that all men 
might see how foolish it is to follow him. The world grows 
worse apace, until finally the Day of the Lord arrives, of 
which it is said, there was never a day of trouble like it, 
nor ever shall be. 

In the last chapter we have seen its darkness and its un- 
speakable woes. We have heard the awful rumblings of 
its chariot wheels of destruction. Our ears have tingled with 
the cries of woe and bitter anguish of earth's millions. 
This is Satan's reward to his servants. Our God and 
Father never takes his eyes off his servants. He promised 
to the overcomers that they should escape all of these 
things and stand before the Son of man. And none of 



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those who are ready and watching when the bridegroom 
comes will have to pass through the tribulation. Jesus 
said so often, "Watch, be ready ; for ye know not when the 
Son of man cometh." 

The Rapture. 

"Behold, I come as a thief in the night." The wise 
virgins are always ready. Jesus will come some night, all 
unobserved by the world, stealthily will he come like 
a thief in the night, and gather up his jewels. It is almost 
certain that the rapture of the saints will be in the night 
in America; for we are told that two shall be in the field, 
and one shall be taken and the other left. Two women 
shall be grinding at the mill, and one shall be taken and the 
other left. Two shall be sleeping in one bed, and one shall 
be taken and the other left. Now the only part of the 
world where the women grind at the mill, as described 
here, is in Palestine and northern Africa. Hence it must 
be day for that part of the world. So those in the field 
will be in the far east, those at the mill in Palestine, and 
when it is day there it is night in America. So the two 
in bed will be in America. 

The scene as it is enacted will be something like the 
following: The Lord himself will descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with 
the trump of God ; and the dead in Christ will rise. Old 
mausoleums will begin to creak and crumble, costly monu- 
ments will topple and fall from their bases, trees that 
have grown up over the sleeping saints will be uprooted 
and fall, graves bursting, and out from these prison houses 
of clay will come a white-robed throng upon whom grav- 



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ity has lost its hold, and they ascend upward to meet the 
Lord in the air. Out from the stored urns of Westmin- 
ster Abbey arise the regenerated forms of the martyrs, and 
from the holy ashes of England and France and Spain 
where the faggots were piled around the faithful saints, 
specters arise clad in robes of immortality to meet their 
risen and descended Lord. Forth from the cities of the 
dead, come the living forms who have awaked in the like- 
ness of the Redeemer, to see him face to face; and from 
every lake and sea and ocean into which a Christian sunk 
into a watery grave specters arise in glorious brightness 
to join the bridegroom throng. Sealed unto the day of 
redemption, not an overcomer will be missed, not one 
will fail to hear the voice of the Son of God in that glori- 
ous resurrection morn. But the rest of the dead lived 
not again for a thousand years. 

Living saints who are ready when the bridegroom comes 
will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, and caught up to meet the Lord. In many a home the 
angel will call, where two are sleeping in one bed, and one 
will be taken and the others left. From some families 
one alone will be taken and the others left. Some homes 
will be emptied; for all will be taken. Some left entire. 
In the field where two are working one will go as the wind 
and the other will not know whither he went. Two women 
will be grinding at the mill, and while one is tugging at 
the handle to move the stone, her eyes will be dimmed as 
her companion takes her upward flight, and when the film 
is wiped from the eye, she sees not her who was there only 
a moment before. Here an empty bed, there an empty 
chair, a vacant home, a companion gone, missing ones 
everywhere. A driver snatched from the buggy leaves the 



180 THE COMING KINGDOM 

horse to run wild and dash the godless maiden upon the 
ground ; the engineer of a railroad train taken from his 
cab, and every sealed saint on the train passes out through 
unopened doors as every one that is born of the spirit can, 
and leave the train of godless men and women to dash 
on to its doomed destruction. In factories operators are 
taken while the looms Tun on, firemen missing and the 
machinery stops, steamships wrecked for lack of a pilot; 
confusion and destruction every where. What matters? 
The foolish virgins were not ready, they are to be slain in 
the tribulation, the rest are doomed to destruction anyway. 
He hath made up his jewels, and gathered the ransomed 
home. No one knows whence they are gone. The world 
stands aghast ! What does it mean ? And suddenly it bursts 
upon the foolish virgins that the rapture has taken place. 
Christ has made up his jewels, Jesus has claimed his own. 
The bridegroom has come, and the wise virgins have gone 
With him to the marriage. The foolish virgins stand in 
the darkness and cry, "Lord, Lord, open unto us." But 
the door is shut. It is past. They cannot enter now. 
"Too late will be the cry, Jesus of Nazareth has passed 
by." 

Who are these raptured saints who have thus escaped 
the tribulation and have been caught up to meet the Lord 
in the air, and to ever be with him? They are the over- 
comers, the four and twenty elders, the man child of Rev. 
12, the crowned rulers of earth who sing the song of Rev. 
5 : 9, 10. They are the wise virgins who had the Oil in their 
lamps and who went in with the bridegroom before the 
door was shut. They are those who watched and were 
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The Foolish Virgins, and Their Resurrection. 

But no Bible reader will deny the fact that there are 
real Christians who are not thus raptured, but who were 
left upon the earth to pass through the tribulation and to be 
slain. Do you ask proof of this ? Here it is : 

Rev. 6:9-11, When the blood of the martyrs was cry- 
ing out for vengeance upon the wicked inhabitants of 
the earth with the question, "How long, Lord, holy and 
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 
that dwell on the earth ?" And white robes were given unto 
every one of them; and it was said unto them, that "they 
should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow serv- 
ants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they 
were, should be fulfilled." 

Again after the rapture of the man child in Rev. 12, 
which is the ruling part of the church under the figure 
of a man child, the woman, which is the church, fled to 
the wilderness to be nourished there for three and a half 
years. It is said of her, "And the dragon was wroth with 
the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of 
her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have 
the testimony of Jesus Christ." 

Dan. 1:21, "I beheld and the same horn (the Anti- 
christ) made war with the saints and overcame them." 
Hence we see that these foolish virgins who did not share 
in. the rapture were slain. What becomes of them then? 
Here is the answer. 

Rev. 7:9-17, "After this I beheld, and lo, a great mul- 
titude, which no man could number, of all nations, and 



182 THE COMING KINGDOM 

kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, 
and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms 
in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Sal- 
vation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and 
unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the 
throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell 
before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, say- 
ing, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanks- 
giving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto God 
for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders an- 
swered, saying unto me, Who are these which are arrayed 
in white robes ? and whence came they ? And I said unto 
him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are 
they which came out of the great tribulation, and have 
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of 
the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, 
and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that 
sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall 
hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall 
the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which 
is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall 
lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes." 

Now it is plain that these are a separate class from the 
overcomers. They have palms of victory, but they are not 
crowned, nor are they ever seated on thrones as the others 
were. But it is also certain that they share in the first 
resurrection; for they were slain in the tribulation, but 
they are now raised and are in heaven and before the 
throne; hence they were raised at a later period than the 
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Coming to Reign. 

His coming back to reign will be the most glorious spec- 
tacle that this world has ever beheld. This will not be as 
a thief in the night. It will be as a brilliant lightning 
flash from one end of heaven to the other. Above the 
brightness of the sun will be the shining glory of his pres- 
ence; for we are told that before his brightness the sun 
6hall be ashamed, and the moon shall be confounded. 
Earth's inhabitants will mourn and call upon the rocks 
and hills to fall upon them and to hide them from his 
face; for they know that they have been rebels against 
his law, and that he has come in wrath and vengeance. 

Behold the pageantry of this great heavenly host ! Rev. 
19 :7-16, Jesus as its leader and general sits upon a white 
horse, going forth in righteousness to judge and make war. 
His eyes sparkle as flames of fire, and on his head are many 
crowns ; and he has a name written that no man knoweth 
but himself. He is clothed in a vesture dipped in blood. 
The armies which are in heaven follow him on white horses, 
clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his 
mouth goeth forth a sharp sword, that with it he should 
smite the nations. On the glorious and shining clouds 
comes this cavalcade of heavenly warriors, all arrayed in 
white robes, and seated on white horses, to the great and 
final conflict of this old world. This is the great decisive 
contest of Joel 3:11-16. 

The harvest of the earth is ripe. Their cup of iniquity 
is full to overflowing; for their wickedness is great. Rus- 
sia with all her bands is assembled in the valley of Jehosh- 
aphat; yea, all the heathen, and all the mighty ones are 
assembled to try their might against the Lord and against 



184 THE COMING KINGDOM 

his holy saints. The Antichrist is general. Multitudes, 
multitudes, are gathered in the valley of decision. The 
battle begins. Hear this mighty general, the Man of Cal- 
vary, command his white-horsed cavalry. "Give them a 
volley of hail!" And there fell upon the armies of the 
earth out of heaven a great hail, each stone of which was 
more than a hundred pounds in weight. 

"Thou sun in the heavens, veil thy face, and look not 
upon this scene', and thou moon, be confounded at the 
drama that I am now enacting" And the sun was black 
as sack cloth of hair, and the moon blushed red like blood 
and hid her face. 

"Ye archangels, touch off the mines of dynamite that 
I have stored in the earth for this occasion" And Mount 
Olivet was split in two by a bomb, and Jerusalem was di- 
vided into three parts ; and there was a mighty earthquake 
that shook the earth from center to circumference, and the 
cities of the nations fell down, and every wall tumbled to 
the ground. 

"Ye powers of mine, shake the earth again" And the 
earth was moved out of her place, and reeled to and fro 
like a drunken man. 

"Discharge the cannons in the forts" And the vol- 
canoes shot forth their fire and brimstone, which fell upon 
men as an overflowing of scourge. 

"Ye stars of heaven, fall upon the earth" And the 
stars of heaven fell as figs from the tree when it is shaken 
of a mighty wind. 

"Tear the heavens asunder" And the heavens departed 
as a scroll when it is rolled together. 

"Move the islands of the sea." And some of the moun- 



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tains sank, and the islands were moved out of their places, 
and streams gushed forth from the mountain tops. 

"Take the least and the false prophet prisoners?" And 
the}' were taken and brought before Jesus, the Conqueror, 
with the implied question, What shall we do with them? 

"Cast them into the lake of fire!' And the angels 
took them and cast them alive into mount Vesuvius, that 
burns with brimstone, and whose smoke ascends upward 
for ever and ever. 

"Catch the devil and chain him." And a mighty angel 
flew with a great chain in his hand, and caught him and 
bound him and buried him for a thousand years. 

The battle is ended. Five-sixths of all the assembled 
hosts of the enemies of righteousness are slain, and the 
birds of the air and the beasts of the field feast upon them. 
And the kings and captains and all the mighty ones that 
were left, hid themselves in the dens and eaves of the 
mountains, and cried for the rocks and hills to fall upon 
them and hide them from this mighty Conqueror. 

The geography of the continents is changed, the earth is 
tilted out of its place, and the seasons are changed. The 
curse is removed, and the old world is at an end. The new 
earth and the new heavens appear. Christ has come. The 
King is here. The beastly Antichrist, and the false prophet 
are in the lake of fire. The Devil is chained, and the king- 
doms of the world have become the kingdoms of the Christ. 
Jesus is King. Rejoice, oh earth, and be glad forever; 
for thy trouble is ended. 

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem. 

Psa. 2^:7-10, "Lift up your heads, ye gates; and be 
ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory 



186 THE COMING KINGDOM 

shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord 
strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up 
your heads, ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting 
doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this 
King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of 
glory/' Hallelujah! 

The Eesurrection op Israel. 

The 144,000 who were sealed by the fifth angel were not 
Christians at all, but they are devout Israelites who wor- 
shipped God and lived pure, clean lives, and hence they 
are preserved on the earth in their humanity during the 
tribulation and are not allowed to be slain by the plagues 
nor by the Antichrist. 

Jesus tells us in Matt. 24 :29, 30 and in Mark 13 :24-27 
that: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days" 
and after the Son of man has come in the clouds with power 
and great glory, that is after the resurection of all the 
Church and after they have all been to heaven and have 
come back to earth, that he will then send forth his angels 
to gather together his elect, that is Israel, from the four 
winds. This is the resurrection of Israel to the same 
condition as the 144,000, redeemed from the earth, are in. 

Isa. 26:19, "Thy dead men shall live, together with 
my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that 
dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the 
earth shall cast out the dead." 

Eos. 18:1 4, "I will ransom them from the power of 
the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I 
will be thy plague; grave, I will be thy destruction: 
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." 

Eze. $7:ll-H, "Then he said unto me, Son of man, 



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these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, 
Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off 
for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, 
Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, my people, I will open 
your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, 
and bring you into the land of Israel (not to heaven). And 
ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your 
graves, my people, and brought you up out of your 
graves and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, 
and I shall place you in your own land : then shall ye know 
that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the 
Lord. 

This completes the first resurrection, and the millennial 
reign begins. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



EUTOPIA. 



We use the word Eutopia, (not Utopia) in its philo- 
logical sense, "the good place." In describing this land 
of the blessed, that has been fabled in story so long, we 
shall not go beyond what is written. It shall not be a land 
of fancy and gorgeous dreams, but a land of glorious real- 
ities, every item of which we may enjoy in full fruition. 
If we shall bring out any upw thing, it will not be because 
it was not in the old Bibles, but simply because we have 
cast aside the veil of spiritualizing, which has so effectually 
blinded the eyes of all who have read the Book, and taken 
God at his word. We believe that when he was dictating 
to his stenographers he knew what he wanted to say, and 
said what he meant, and meant what he said, and meant 
for us to undertstand what they wrote. Hence he put it 
in simple language, unornamented by flowers of rhetoric, 
and untrammeled by periphrastic phrases, so that we might 
not be turned from the truth by the clothing it wore. 

But the great Deceiver got in his work by spiritualizing 
it all away, and has, for a time, succeeded. We will, there- 
fore, take each statement in its most literal sense, and give 
it its most facial meaning. God has planted in the human 
heart a desire and a hope for something better than what 
we have here. This is not man's destiny. The goal lies 
beyond. Every one knows and feels that. Few have seen 
the goal, but all long for it, with an indefinable hope and 

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ideal. We are simply surprised at what is revealed of the 
Glory Land, and more surprised at how it has been ex- 
plained away. Here we rend the veil, and throw away other 
people's glasses, so as to look with clear eyes, and think 
with our own clear brain. What is the heritage of the saints 
in light ? We are "heirs and joint heirs with Christ." "I 
appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father hath appointed 
unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my 
Kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of 
Israel." 

Paradise. 

The word is used only three times in the whole Bible, 
and once in the Apocrypha, and always in the same sense. 
It always means Christ's millennial Kingdom. Partic- 
ularly, it means Jerusalem during the millennial reign. 
Primarily, it meant a beautiful garden, and that is just 
what Jerusalem and its environs will be when Christ shall 
have beautified the place of his sanctuary. 

The first mention of it is in the Savior's reply to the 
prayer of the penitent thief. The thief had, by some 
means, heard that Jesus was preaching the good tidings 
of a Kingdom 3 7 et to come, and in which he was to be the 
King. With that thought in his mind, as he saw the awful 
wonders of the crucifixion of Jesus, he was convinced that 
his claim was true, and that he (Jesus) would yet be 
King. 

Probably he had heard him, a few hours before, tell 
Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, and his 
mind grasped the thought that the golden age is when 
Jesus shall reign ; and with all his heart he prayed, "Lord 
remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." Jesus 



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replied, verily, I say unto thee today, Thou shalt be with 
me in Paradise/' In other words, "I tell thee today, That 
I grant your request, and you shall be with me in Jeru- 
salem when I reign in glory." In the original Greek there 
is no punctuation. The punctuation which we have in our 
Bibles is arbitrary, and may be right or wrong. In the 
Savior's answer to the thief, we have just placed the comma 
after "today" instead of before it. The Savior's teaching 
requires this ; for he said that, "As Jonah was three days 
and three nights in the whale's belly, so must the Son of 
man be three days and three nights in the heart of the 
earth." Hence he did not go to Paradise that day ; for we 
know that Paradise is not in the heart of the earth, as the 
other references positively show. 

The next reference to Paradise is where Paul was 
caught up to Paradise, and heard things that were not 
tellable. He was caught up to the third heaven. He saw 
the gospel age, the millennial age, and the age succeeding 
that, (the third heaven) which was not to be revealed to 
us now. At any rate, Paradise was not in the heart of the 
earth. And we know that he had great revelations of 
Christ's glory and of his Kingdom, many things of which 
he told us. 

The last mention of Paradise is an assurance to the 
overcomers that they shall eat of the tree of life, which 
is in the midst of the Paradise of God. This locates it 
beyond doubt or cavil ; for we know that the tree of life is 
by the river of life, and the river of life flows out from 
beneath the throne in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and its 
environs, watered by the river of life, and innumerable 
gushing, artesian fountains, with the trees of life lining 
the banks, and with the lilies of the valley, and the roses 



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of Sharon, and the excellency of Carmel, all brought in to 
beautify the place of His sanctuary, and to make the place 
of His feet glorious, will be one grand Paradise, the like 
of which has never been seen before. There we shall meet 
the penitent thief, and see and learn the unspeakable things 
that Paul saw and heard, and eat of the tree of life which 
is in the midst of the Paradise of God. II Esdras 8 :52, 
"For unto you is Paradise opened; the tree of life is 
planted, the time to come is prepared, plentiousness is made 
ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect 
goodness and wisdom." 

"0 golden day when Christ descends, 
The curse removes and sorrow ends ; 
All glory-clad, the ransomed rise 
To reign with Him in Paradise. 

Paradise, sweet Paradise, 
From this vile earth we long to rise ; 
Paradise, bright Paradise, 
Where Jesus reigns before our eyes. 

The fatal fall, the sin, the shame, 
The death, the doom, the sword, the flame, 
The curse, the crime beyond disguise, 
Will all be passed in Paradise. 

The beaded brow, the silvered hair, 
The aching heart, the vacant chair, 
The grassy graves, the broken ties, 
Are not the scenes of Paradise." 



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The Glorified Body. 



What a joy it will be to lay aside this mortal body, 
with all of its aches and pains, with all its sorrows and woes, 
for the immortal, glorified body in the likeness of the Son 
of God ! Oh this horrid corruption ! Away with it ! The 
repellant, loathsome diseases that for centuries have caused 
mankind to send up a wail of complaint, "I am so sick." 
"0, when shall I be released from this pain ?" "The night 
is so long, and so dark, God, send me relief. " All of this 
must cease; for we are told that no inhabitant shall say, 
"I am sick." 

The glorified body will be a material body. Christ was 
the first-fruits of the resurrection, that is, the first body 
that was ever raised to the immortal life, and with the res- 
urrection body. All who had been raised before, as Laz- 
arus, Jarius' daughter, and others, were raised to this mor- 
tal life and died again; but Jesus was the first to rise from 
the dead with the new body. "Christ the first-fruits, 
afterwards they are Christ's at his coming." 

On the morning of the resurrection when Jesus met 
the women who went early to the tomb, they held him by the 
feet. He told his disciples to handle him and know that he 
was flesh and bones, that he had a material body, and to be- 
hold his hands and his feet. The night when he appeared 
to them in the upper room, one week after his resurrection, 
when Thomas was present, he told him to put his fingers 
in the print of the nails, and to thrust his hand into his 
side, and be convinced that it was he, and that he had a 
material body. . 

The resurrection body also eats and drinks. He said 
to his desciples, "Ye shall sit at my table, and eat and drink 



THE COMING KINGDOM 193 

in my Kingdom." At the supper table he told them he 
would not drink any more of the fruit of the vine until he 
drank it new in his Father's Kingdom. On one occasion 
after his resurrection, when he appeared to his disciples, 
he asked them if they had any meat. And they gave him 
a piece of a broiled fish and a honey comb ; and he ate and 
drank in their presence. In Paradise, that is, in Jerusa- 
lem are the trees of life, which yield their new ripe fruit 
every month, and whose fruit is for food. 

Although it is material, and eats and drinks, it has 
higher capabilities than the mortal body. While Cleopas 
and Luke were on their way to Emmaus, Jesus joined them 
and talked with them all the way, and wonderfully and lu- 
cidly expounded the Scriptures to them, yet they knew him 
not, until in the breaking of bread at the supper table 
he was known unto them ; and immediately he vanished out 
of their sight. Here was a higher capability than he had 
ever possessed in his mortal body. That same night at Je- 
rusalem, when the disciples had assembled in the upper 
room, while the doors were shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus 
appeared in their midst without the opening of doors, 
or coming through any visible entrance. 

The next Sunday night he did the same thing again, 
as they were assembled in like manner. On the day of his 
ascension, while he stood on Mount Olivet talking to his 
disciples, gravitation lost its hold on him and he began to 
ascend in their presence, until a cloud received him out of 
their sight. "So is every one that is born of the spirit," 
he told Nicodemus. They will be able to come and go as 
the wind, which means that everyone that is born from the 
dead, as he was at his resurrection, will have the same capa- 



194 THE COMING KINGDOM 

bilities as he had. They will not be limited by walls, and 
gravitation as now. 

The resurrection body mill be immortal. Those that 
are accounted worthy of that life, and of the resurrection 
from among the dead, neither marry nor are given in mar- 
riage, neither can they die any more" They are immortal. 
The body "is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorrup- 
tion." "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, 
and this mortal must put on immortality." "As thou hast 
given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal 
life to as many as thou hast given him." 

The glorified body will be self-luminous. When Jesus 
was transfigured on the mount before Peter, James, and 
John his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was 
white as the light. His raiment became shining, exceeding 
white as snow ; so as no fuller on earth can white them. He 
will come again in all the glory of his Father. The Fath- 
er's glory is described in the following: "Whose garment 
was as white as snow ; and the hair of his head as pure wool ; 
and his throne was like a fiery flame, and his wheels as burn- 
ing fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before 
him." The wheels, or halos of glory, that encircled the 
throne, are painted in all the radiance of the rainbow 
hues, and sparkling as the most brilliant gems. This is 
the glorified body of Jesus that lights up the city of Jeru- 
salem so brilliantly that they need no light of the sun or 
the moon. Jerusalem covered by the cloudy canopy, which 
will exclude the light and heat of the heavenly luminaries, 
will be lighted by the radiant, luminous body of the Christ, 
which will be above the brightness of the sun; for we are 
told that the moon will be confounded, and the sun 



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ashamed, when Jesus reigns in Mount Zion before his 
ancients in glory. 

And this same glory is a part of the inheritance of the 
saints in light. "Then shall the righteous shine forth as 
the sun in the Kingdom of their Father." "Beloved, now 
are we the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what 
we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we 
shall be like him ; for we shall see him as he is." "They 
that be wise shall shine as the firmament; and they that 
turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever." 
This will be a literal fact ; for each glorified saint will be 
radiant with glory like unto the Christ; for they shall be 
satisfied when they awake in his likeness. "If we suffer 
with him, we shall also be glorified together." Enoch 
104:2, "Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame 
through ills and affliction; but soon ye will shine as the 
stars of heaven, ye will shine and ye will be seen, and the 
portals of heaven will be opened to you." 

"Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell 
in thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh 
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart; that 
uttereth no calumny with his tongue, that doth no evil to 
his neighbor, and bringeth no reproach on his fellow man ; 
in whose eyes the despicable is despised ; but that honoreth 
those that fear the Lord; that sweareth to his own injury, 
and changeth not; that putteth not out his money to 
usury, and taketh no bribe against the innocent. He that 
doth these things shall not be moved to eternity." 

"Who shall dwell with the devouring fire (of Jesus' 
luminous body) ? Who shall dwell with the everlasting 
burnings (the glorified bodies of the saints) ? He that 
walketh in righteousness, and speaketh uprightly; he that 



196 THE COMING KINGDOM 

despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands 
against taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears 
against the hearing of blood, that shutteth his eyes against 
looking on evil; he shall dwell on high; rocky strongholds 
shall be his refuge ; his bread shall be given him, his waters 
shall be sure. His eyes shall see the King in his beauty." 

The New Earth. 

The inhabitants of the new earth will be mortals and 
immortals. The dead in Christ are raised in the first 
resurrection, and those who are changed at the time of 
the rapture and caught up to meet the Lord in the air, 
and the great throng of palm-bearers, the attendants of 
the bride, will all be immortal. Paul tells us that the 
dead in Christ shall rise firsts — that is, they will rise in 
the first resurrection. He also tells us that they will rise 
immortal. Jesus tells us that they that are accounted 
worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from 
among the dead, will be unable to die any more. That is, 
they will be immortal. But Israel and the nations who 
constitute the Kingdom will still be mortal. They will 
build houses and inhabit them, they will plant vineyards 
and drink the wine thereof. The seasons will be uniform, 
so that the reaper shall overtake the ploughman, and the 
treader of grapes him that soweth seed. In other words, 
the crops will be maturing all the time, and it may be that 
it will not take three or four months to mature a crop, 
but that they will spring up quickly and mature every 
month, so that the reaper will practically be treading on 
the heels of him that soweth seed. The trees will yield 
their fruit every month, and their fruit will never be 
exhausted. 



THE COMING KINGDOM 197 

There will be no droughts nor lack of rain. There 
will be no wastes and arid deserts; for we are told that 
the wilderness shall flourish and blossom as the rose, and 
that the springs shall gush forth in the deserts, making 
them green with reeds and rushes. All briers and thorns 
will disappear, and give place to the more beautiful and 
useful. Instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle 
tree, and instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree. 
The nettles and briers and thistles that prick the chil- 
dren's feet will all be removed; for they were a part of 
the curse of sin. When the earth again indigenously 
yields her increase, and the trees of the field yield their 
monthly crops of luscious fruits, which are for food, and 
whose supply is never exhausted, is it too much to say 
that the endless toil of women will have an end ? No 
cooking and dish-washing needed then. Go to the tree of 
life, eat to the full and be satisfied. And the mountains 
shall drop down new wine, and all the hills shall flow with 
milk. 

All enmity between beasts will be destroyed, so that the 
lion will eat straw like the ox, and the calf and the bear 
will lie down in peace together. Even the venomous snake 
will be robbed of its sting, and of any disposition to harm 
even a child; for the sucking child shall play on the hole 
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand in the 
adder's nest. There will be no danger lurking anywhere; 
no miasmatic poison, no pestiferous microbes, no cancer, 
no tuberculosis, no smallpox, no measles, no croup, no 
toothaches, and, thank God, no appendicitis; no pills and 
knives of surgeons, no belts and no braces. Free and 
healthy, holy and whole. No weeping, no sorrow, no sigh- 
ing, no crying, no tears. All harmony, all joy, peace sur- 



198 THE COMING KINGDOM 

passing knowledge. At His right hand there are pleasures 
forevercnore. 

We should not fail to see that children will be born 
through that age, or the sucking child would not play on 
the hole of the asp, and a little child lead the herds of 
mixed animals. Persons will eat, drink and sleep too, as 
we have seen all these things mentioned in the expressions 
describing Israel in the conditions of the new earth. 

There will be no mortgages and foreclosures; for they 
shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant 
and another eat, they shall enjoy the fruits of their labors 
for a long time. All of these things accord with what has 
been shown in the other chapters of this book, that the 
subjects of the Kingdom will still be mortal, and will 
die at the end of their allotted days — not less than a hun- 
dred years; for the child shall die an hundred years old. 
The streets of Jerusalem shall be full of boys and girls, 
and the old man with his staff for very age. The virgins 
shall go forth in the dances with them that make merry, 
and the voice of the bride and the bridegroom will be 
heard in the land. 

We are told that the earth shall be moved out of its 
place by the great earthquake. That probably means that 
the plane of the ecliptic will then again coincide with the 
plane of the equator, thus making the day and night 
equal over all the earth all the time; and making the 
season one perpetual spring. 

All the kingdoms of the world will become the King- 
dom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and twelve apostles will then 
be kings, sitting on twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel. In other words, all the earth will be 
divided into twelve kingdoms, with an apostle for a king 



THE COMING KINGDOM 199 

over each. So it is no speculation to say that, Paul may 
be king of Great Britain, and Peter king of North America. 
Some lesser officers will be mayors of five or ten cities. 
"Reign thou over ten cities. ,, "Reign thou over five cities." 
All the offices of a good government will have to be filled, 
and the overcomers (the immortals, the Bride), will be 
the officers. 

It will be an ideal government when all officers will be 
at peace, and all exactors are righteousness. Think of 
the millions of officers it now takes to fill all the govern- 
ments of the world, and it will be seen that there will not 
be too many of the overcomers to fill them all. Then 
every royal court will be filled with the white robed throng 
of palm bearers, whose number was so great that no man 
could number them. 



"I've reached the land of corn and wine, 
And all its riches freely mine ; 
Here shines undimmed one blissful day; 
For all my night has passed away. 

The Savior comes and walks with me, 
And sweet communion here have we; 
He gently leads me with his hand, 
For this is heaven's border land. 

A sweet perfume upon each breeze 
Is borne from ever vernal trees, 
And flowers that never fading grow 
Where streams of life forever flow. 



200 THE COMING KINGDOM 

The zephyrs seem to float to me, 
Sweet sounds of heaven's melody, 
As angels, with the white-robed throng, 
Join in the sweet redemption song/' 

The End. 



INDEX 

Page 

Above all nations, Israel 1 5, 19 

Advent, first, prophecy of 6, 76 

Advent, second 1 83 

Amalgamation 19 

Anglo-Saxons, supreme 19 

Antichrist, the 144 

Apostolic mission changed 44 

Armageddon, the battle of 162 

Attendants of the bride 123 

Automobiles in prophecy 98 

Babylonian captivity 3 

Blindness to Israel 1,45 

Bondage in Egypt 2 

Bride, the church 120 

Build and plant 61 

Canopy over Jerusalem 115 

Cedar of Lebanon 65 

Christ and the Church 132 

Christ, to sit on David's throne 71 

Church, the bride 26, 120 

Church vs. 144,000 132 

Coming of the King 174 

Coming to reign 1 83 

Complexion 38 

Conflict, the 172 

Cost of Jerusalem no 

Covenants with patriarchs , 20, 22, 47 

Crops of U. S 41 

Cup of fury to nations 59 

Curse on Jews 5, 36 

Curse on Israel 37 

Dan, two colonies 55 

Danites impress Greece and Rome 57 

Day of the Lord 143 

Deeds to Baruch 95 

Denmark, Dan in 55 

Desolation of Palestine 4 

Desolation of Jerusalem 6 

Different gospel 44 

Earmarks of Israel 40 

Earthquake 105 

Ebed-melech ' 62 



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Page 

Eldad 55 

Ephraim blessed , 23 

Ephraim identified 25 

Escape 64 

Eutopia 188 

Ezekiel's stick 82 

Ezekiel's riddle 65 

Facts unyielding 18 

Falling away of the church 87 

Feast of birds 171 

First resurrection 178 

Foolish virgins raised 181 

Galilee peopled by the ten tribes 43 

Gates owned by Anglo-Saxons 20 

Gauls and Goths, Israelites 57 

Gedaliah 59 

Gentiles, time of 45 

Gentiles are servants 139 

Gladstone 57 

Glorified body 192 

Gospel of Kingdom 44, 1 55 

Gospel of the Church 44 

Heavenly Jerusalem 117 

Hope of the nations 135 

House of Israel defined 33 

House of Judah defined 32 

House of Israel, Savior's mission to 42 

House of Israel, tracing 55 

Identity of Israel 38 

Immortals, the bride 125 

Inheritors 122 

Interpretetion, a key to I 

In the time of these kings 51 

Insurance policies 58, 62 

Israel, above all nations.. 15 

Israel, the meaning of the word 29 

Israel divided into two kingdoms 33 

Israel's bondage in Egypt 2 

Israel's apostasy in Canaan 3 

Jeremiah's call and mission 51 

Jeremiah's sins 58 

Jerusalem, the throne of Christ 104 

Jerusalem, the beautiful 1 12 

Jerusalem, the heavenly 117 

Jerusalem enriched by Gentiles 141 

Jews, scattered 5 

Jews defined 32 

Jews return from Babylon 35 



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Page 

Jews rejected by Jesus 42 

Johanan 63 

Joseph blessed 24 

Josephus 57 

Key to Interpretation 1 

Kingdom of heaven, material 52 

Last message 155 

Lend but not borrow 16 

Lives insured 58, 62 

Living caught up 179 

Manasseh identified 25 

Mansions, many 118 

Material kingdom 52 

Meaning of words 29 

Mortals, the kingdom 125, 127 

Multitude of nations 24 

Mysteries, the two 147 

Negroes in Africa 137 

New earth 196 

New Jerusalem 117 

Ophir 158 

Overcomers, rulers 120 

Overcomers, who are the 121 

Paradise 189 

Patriarchs' blessing 17 

Perpetuity of David's throne 50 

Plan for a kingdom 15, 20 

Planting a kingdom 51 

Prophets all of Israel 20 

Queen Victoria 68, 73 

Rapture, the 178 

Redemption, the book of 174 

Regathering of the twelve tribes 85 

Reign with Christ 130 

Resurrection of Israel 186 

Resurrection of foolish virgins 181 

Resurrection, the first 178 

Restoration of all things 87 

Riddle, Ezekiel's 65 

River of life 105, 107 

Rulers of the kingdom 120 

Russia, Japhetic . 39 

Russia invades Palestine 102 

Sabbath, a sign to Israel 40 

Saints possess the kingdom 128 

Samaritans 42 

Scandinavians, Israelites 56 

Scattering of the Jews 5 



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Page 

Servants to Israel 139 

Shekina reappears 103 

Shem blessed 18 

Shepherds cursed 93 

Sodomitish Sea 154 

Solomon's expenditures no 

Sons of God 122 

Spiritualizing i, 28 

Spiritual Israel , . . 53 

Tabernacle hidden and found 63,103 

Tea-Tephi 68 

Temple to be built by Christ no 

Tender twig 67 

Ten tribes, special importance of 32 

Teutons 56 

The 144,000 125,132 

These kings, in the time of 51 

Throne of the Lord 50 

Tracing House of Israel 55 

Tribulation, the 143 

Triumphal entry 185 

Twelve tribes, the kingdom 79 

Two witnesses, the 148 

Unconditional covenant to David 47 

Victoria's wish 68 

Victoria's throne 73 

Virgins, wise 123 

Virgins, foolish 124 

Witnesses, the two 148 

Zedekiah's daughters 65 

Zion, meaning of 8 



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